THE ISLAMIC BULLETIN

VOL. X, NO. 23 SPECIAL RAMADAN ISSUE

Ramadan Mubarak ! IN THIS ISSUE The Islamic Bulletin returns with our Ramadan edition! We are happy to introduce our recently launched and greatly expanded website, with the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ...... 2 resources you need and in the language of your choice—English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Arabic. We have everything from free downloads of classic Islamic Books to the Masjid and Qibla Finder, which points the way ISLAMIC WORLD NEWS ...... 4 from a satellite map of your neighborhood! Want to hear live radio Quran? Do you need to learn how to pray? Thinking of making a last will? We have them PIONEER OF THE ENVIRONMENT ...... 5 all, and so much more. Please visit our website at www.islamicbulletin.org, and click on “Enter Here”, where you will find our site to be user-friendly with MADRASSA AN-NOOR FOR THE BLIND ...... 7 easy-find icons. HOW I EMBRACED ISLAM ...... 8 First and foremost, our goal as Muslims is to worship Allah. We all come from different backgrounds and cultures. Yet, the one strong common thread WHAT COULD YOU GAIN FROM FASTING? ..... 11 between each and every one of us is our religion, Islam. So, instead of finding the differences that divide us, let us look at and celebrate the similarities that AFTER RAMADAN ...... 12 unite us. And since the one big thing that unites us is Islam, this publication was born with that concept in mind. The Islamic Bulletin started back in 1991, PRAYER LOCATIONS ...... 15 and our mission remains the same--to deliver positive and uplifting Islamic material. As Muslims living in America, we must unite to build our faith and our ISLAMIC LAST WILL- “PULL OUT” SECTION ..... 15 hopes and dreams for a stronger community. It has always been our wish to bring uplifting articles on Islam, with the hope that they strengthen our Iman WHO IS BARAKA (RA)? ...... 19 (faith) and make us proud to be Muslims. Young or old, it is always encouraging when we read positive stories about Muslims. With this as our HAYA ...... 21 goal, the Islamic Bulletin has been striving hard to accomplish this. Now, on to the current issue of the Islamic Bulletin. In this issue, in addition to RIGHTS IN ISLAM ...... 22 all our favorites—Why I Embraced Islam, Islamic World News, Kid’s Corner, Stories of the Sahaba—we have also included an enlightening story about QURAN & SCIENCE ...... 23 Baraka (RA), a story about a school for the blind, an article about what we should do after Ramadan, an updated California prayer location, a Hajj and KID’S CORNER ...... 25 Umrah guide, a copy of the Islamic last will, everyday duas, and a yummy desert for Ramadan, Tiramisu. We sincerely hope you enjoy this expanded COOK’S CORNER ...... 26 issue. We have designed it to include the resources you might use in your everyday lives. In addition, our duas (supplications) are available on our web HAJJ--ANOTHER PILLAR ...... 26 site, with an audio feature to help with Arabic pronunciation. With this feature, you can repeat them at your pace so that you can recite them correctly. We HAJJ AND UMRAH GUIDE ...... 27 hope that you enjoy this expanded issue as well our new, expanded website.

EVERYDAY DUA’A ...... 29 On a final note, the Editors at the Islamic Bulletin ask that you join us in making a special dua’ for one of our editors, Pamela Barrett, who passed away recently. Pamela’s diligent and tireless work contributed also to the building of the Islamic Bulletin! She will truly be missed. We ask Allah to have Mercy on her, to forgive her sins and grant her paradise. If you would like to read about Pamela’s conversion story, it can be found under How I Embraced Islam, on our THE ISLAMIC BULLETIN website. In addition, we have included the book she was working on before Published by the she died. During this blessed month of Ramadan, may Allah (SWT) have mercy Islamic Community of on us, forgive our sins, and to grant us the hightest level in Paradise, Jannat Al Northern California Firdous. Ameen. A Non-Profit Corporation P.O. Box 410186 San Francisco, CA 94141-0186 Wishing you all the blessings of Ramadan, E-Mail: [email protected] Islamic Bulletin Website: http://www.islamicbulletin.org ETTERS O HE DITOR L T T E Dear Editor, I have saved every issue of the Islamic Bulletin and they have helped me tremedously. I read this story and would like to share it Dear Editor, with you. It has a powerful message. I would like you to know that I love your newsletter He remembered his grandmother's warning about praying on and would like to share an article which I wrote, “Our time: "My son, you shouldn't leave prayer to this late time". His Own Kahf”, with your readers. grandmother's age was 70 but whenever she heard the Adhan, “For they, if they should come to know you, she got up immediately and performed Salah. He, however could will stone you or turn you back to their never win over his ego to get up and pray. Whatever he did, his religion; then ye will never prosper.” Salah was always the last to be offered and he prayed it quickly to (Surat-Al-Kahf Ayat 20) get it in on time. This particular ayat in Surat Al-Kahf, or The Cave, is referring to Thinking of this, he got up and realized that there were only 15 a group of young men who had dwelled in a cave for some minutes left before Salat-ul Isha. He quickly made Wudhu and time. When one of these young men went into the city with a performed Salat-ul Maghrib. While making Tasbih, he again silver coin to buy food he was warned of the people therein who would turn him “…back to their religion…” if they should remembered his grandmother and was embarrassed by how he come to know of him. Some might read this story, in particular had prayed. His grandmother prayed with such tranquility and this ayat, and view it as a time far off and distant, but upon peace. He began making Dua and went down to make Sajdah deeper probing and a pinch of reflection one will see the and stayed like that for a while. He had been at school all day relation to our present day and age, our present situation. and was tired, so tired. Let me explain. Kahf means a “Place of refuge; protection He awoke abruptly to the sound of noise and shouting. He was from trouble, danger, or pursuit; place to hide; place to go into sweating profusely. He looked around. It was very crowded. Every hiding; cavern; cage; refuge.” Now, when we are in our homes direction he looked in was filled with people. Some stood frozen (or a Mosque for that matter) are we not in our own personal place of refuge? Our own “Cave”? I think it is safe to say yes. looking around, some were running left and right and some were However, eventually we must venture out of our homes (or on their knees with their heads in their hands just waiting. Pure the mosque), out of our refuge into the city, into the populace. fear and apprehension filled him as he realized where he was. When we do so we are amongst men (and women) of His heart was about to burst. It was the Day of Judgment. When different religions-- whether it be the religion of gangs, the he was alive, he had heard many things about the questioning on religion of drugs, the religion of lust and sexual sin, or even the religion of hate. the Day of Judgment, but that seemed so long ago. Could this be something his mind made up? Could it be a dream? No, the wait It is proven that none of these “religions of man” bring true and the fear were so great that he could not have imagined this. happiness and peace; quite the contrary they give birth to misery and pain some sooner, some later. As the saying goes: Two angels grabbed his arms and led him forward. He walked “misery loves company”, and in light of this we conclude that with unknowing eyes through the crowd. The angels brought him when we (Muslimun) are amongst them (Kafirun) they will to the center and left him there. His head was bent down and his proceed to cast their religion of choice on us, or at least whole life was passing in front of his eyes like a movie. He attempt to. opened his eyes but saw only another world. Several things can then occur but two jump to mind The people were all helping others. He saw his father running immediately. The first, after exhaustively searching for ways to from one lecture to the other, spending his wealth in the way of “convert” you (and altogether failing) in a bout of loathing and Islam. His mother invited guests to their house and one table was seething, they strike against you (really against what you stand for: Islam) hence, they “…will stone you…” The second (and being set while the other was being cleared. He pleaded his case, by far worse), in their pernicious effort to cajole you into their "I too was always on this path. I helped others. I spread the word wicked system of belief you strike against them, not out of of Allah. I performed my Salah. I fasted in the month of justice but out of hate. And with that they have succeeding in Ramadan. Whatever Allah ordered us to do, I did. Whatever he turning “…you back to their religion…”in this instance, hate. ordered us not to do, I did not." He began to cry and think about Allah (SWT) goes on to say “…then ye will never prosper.” how much he loved Allah. For if we give into the religion(s) of Kafirun we will by then He knew that whatever he had done in life would be less than have forsaken our own, and when we abandon our Islamic what Allah deserved and his only protector was Allah. He was values we become of the Shayatin. When we are in our place of refuge, our “Cave”, we should be building and sweating like never before and was shaking all over. His eyes strengthening our Faith, our Islam, so when we do have to were fixed on the scale, waiting for the final decision. At last, the wander into the city, Inshallah, we will be able to ward off the decision was made. The two angels with sheets of paper in their Kafirun and the Shayatin. We will be able to take on the hands, turned to the crowd. His legs felt like they were going to position of the moon in respect to Allah’s sunlight: a reflection collapse. He closed his eyes as they began to read the names of of purity and perfection. those people who were to enter Jahannam. His name was read first. He fell on his knees and yelled that this couldn't be, "How Luqman Muzzamil, could I go to Jahannam (Hell-fire)? I served others all my life, I San Quentin, California spread the word of Allah to others". His eyes had become blurry and he was shaking with sweat. The two angels took him by the arms. As his feet dragged, they went through the crowd and advanced toward the blazing flames of Jahannam.

The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 2 He was yelling and wondered if there was any person who was PAID IN FULL WITH ONE GLASS OF MILK going to help him. He was yelling of all the good deeds he had done, how he had helped his father, his fasts, prayers, the Qur'an that he read, he was asking if none of them would help him. The One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one dime left, and Jahannam angels continued to drag him. he was hungry. They had gotten closer to the Hellfire. He looked back and these were his last pleas. Had not Rasulullah [saw] said, "How clean He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. would a person be who bathes in a river five times a day, so too However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal, he asked for a drink does the Salah performed five times cleanse someone of their of water. She thought he looked hungry so she sins"? brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it He began yelling, "My prayers? my prayers? my prayers." The two slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe you?” “You don’t owe me anything,” she angels did not stop, and they came to the edge of the abyss of replied. “Mother has taught us never to accept Jahannam. The flames of the fire were burning his face. He pay for a kindness.” He said..... “Then I thank looked back one last time, but his eyes were dry of hope and he you from my heart.” had nothing left in him. As this boy, Howard Kelly, left that house, he not One of the angels pushed him in. He found himself in the air and only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was falling towards the flames. He had just fallen five or six feet when stronger also. Until that moment, he had been ready to give up a hand grabbed him by the arm and pulled him back. and quit. He lifted his head and saw an old man with a long white beard. Many years later that young woman became critically ill. The He wiped some dust off himself and asked him, "Who are you?" local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, The old man replied, "I am your prayers". "Why are you so late! I where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Howard was almost in the Fire! You rescued me at the last minute before Kelly, who was now a doctor, was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange I fell in". The old man smiled and shook his head, "You always light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall performed me at the last minute, did you forget?" to the hospital room. Dressed in his doctor’s gown he went in to At that instant, he blinked and lifted his head from Sajdah. He see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. was in a sweat. He listened to the voices coming from outside. From that day, he gave special attention to the case. After a long He heard the adhan for Salat-ul Isha. He got up quickly and went struggle, the battle was won. to perform Wudhu. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to Pass this on to your friends and family... maybe you can help him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the someone open their eyes. And who knows? Maybe this is a good edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, deed that can help you during the day of judgment. for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the Atif side of the bill. She read these words..... “Paid in full with one Miami, Florida glass of milk” Signed, Dr. Howard Kelly. Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: “Thank You, God, that Your love has spread abroad through human hearts and hands.” IMPORTANT REMINDER Dr. Howard Kelly was a distinguished physician who, in 1895, The verses of the Holy Qur’an and the traditions of the Prophet have been printed for the founded the Johns Hopkins Division of Gynecologic Oncology at benefit of our readers. You are asked to ensure their sanctity. Therefore, they should be Johns Hopkins University. According to Dr. Kelly’s biographer, disposed of in the proper Islamic manner. Audrey Davis, the doctor was on a walking trip through Northern Pennsylvania one spring day when he stopped by a farm house ABBREVIATIONS USED for a drink of water. SWT - Subhanahu wa ta’ala (Allah is pure of having partners & He is exalted from having a son) Many thanks to Andrew Harrison, the Processing Archivist and PBUH; SAW; AS - Peace Be Upon Him, Fine Arts Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, R.A.; R.A.A. - Allah was pleased with him/her for help with this story.

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The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 3 ISLAMIC WORLD NEWS

ISLAM IN BOLIVIA

BY SAN FRANCISCO GROUP I was fortunate, by the grace of Allah, to travel with a group of 6 Muslim brothers to the country of Bolivia. Our mission there was to visit the Muslims in Bolivia so that they can establish the effort of the Prophet Mohammed (SAW), and spread the word of Allah –to give Dawah. The word Dawah means to invite. In this particular case, we were inviting the Bolivians to the word of Allah, to the deen of Islam. I was very excited to be leaving. For the next 40 days, I would be leaving my family, my job, and all the comforts of home. Although I had anticipated some hardships, I knew my presence and the fact that I was the only Spanish-speaking brother in the group would be very helpful to the group. So, we departed San Francisco International Airport on our way to Bolivia. El Camino de la Muerte (Road of Death), Bolivia the side of the mountain. In fact, Bolivia is known for “El Camino We landed in Bolivia and the first thing we did was to rent a de la muerte” which translates to the “Road to Death” and is van. After finding accommodations for the night, we flipped known as the most dangerous road in the world. through the local phone book and searched for “Muslim- Whenever we arrived to a new city, the police always met us at sounding” names. Thanks to Allah, the next day we found a the border. They were very weary of us and suspicious. They Muslim man, who was originally from Pakistan, and now living would ask us the same questions—where we were going? Who in La Paz, Bolivia, to show us around the city. He was also very we were going to visit? Where would we be staying? And each generous to permit us to use a one-bedroom apartment. and every time we would answer politely and honestly. We had Alhamdullilah we started a musallah (prayer place) in his house, nothing to hide. We explained Islam to them in hopes that they, and invited the local people. Their “downtown musallah” too, might be touched by the beauty of Islam. consisted of an extremely run down, one-room space in the market-place, that was open only for Jumha salat. There was no Alhamdullilah, after arriving in Santa Cruz and met a brother bathroom, nor was there any water to make wudu. named Isa. Isa is a Bolivian of Palestinian heritage. Isa, along with his father, offer free Arabic classes to the local people. Due to The altitude was so high in some cities in Bolivia that we could the media coverage of current events in Islam, this has had a hardly breathe. In fact, each night our chests would tighten so great impact on the Bolivian people attending these classes much that we couldn’t sleep. I then remembered the ayah in wanting to learn more about the Muslim people. This father and the Holy Quran where Allah (SWT) says: son duo has brought many people to Islam. While we were in Santa Cruz, I had the opportunity to visit their Islamic library. We “Whomever GOD wills to guide, He renders his chest wide noticed that many of the Islamic books had been translated from open to Submission. And whomever He wills to send astray, the Arabic language to Spanish. Brother Isa, who had studied in He renders his chest intolerant and tight, like one who Madinah, Saudi Arabia and was fluent in both the Arabic and climbs towards the sky. (Quran, 6:125)” Spanish languages, had translated many books into Spanish. He then asked me my opinion about which would be a good book I said, “SubhanAllah. There was no way that at the time this to translate from English into Spanish and started showing me his ayah was revealed in the Arabian Peninsula, more than 1400 collection of English books. When my eyes saw a familiar book years ago, that people would have known about this altitude entitled “What Everyone Should Know about Islam and Muslims” pain. We were always out of breath, and amazed at how the by Suzanne Hanif. I told him that this is a great book to translate local men and women would play soccer and run like it was into Spanish. To my amazement, when I opened the book, it had nothing. The locals offered us an herbal drink, “mate”, which my name and address in it. I said “SubhanAllah” How did this was a tea-like drink and kept telling us that the more we book come to Bolivia? He then told me that while he was stayed, the more our hearts would open up and the less the attending school in Madinah he met this brother from Argentina altitude would bother us. Our hearts opened up to feel concern who had given him the book. I then remembered the story of for the Bolivian people. In total, Alhamdullilah, 25 Bolivian this book. I had actually purchased this book when I visited people accepted Islam. In fact, the name “La Paz” means Pakistan and brought it home with me to San Francisco. At the peace in Spanish and it did bring a lot of peace. Only Allah time I received a call from this Argentinean man that I had never (SWT) knows just how many others were affected by our met. He was very interested in Islam so I mailed him the book. peaceful religion. Alhamdullilah the man accepted Islam and went back to Argentina. I did not even know that he had gone to Madinah to We stayed in the city of La Paz for one week. Each day, we study. This whole incident brought tears to my eyes. went out visiting the Muslim brothers and encouraging them about their prayers, dhikr, and the importance of remembe, and While we were riding back, our van broke down in the establishing the effort of the Prophet Mohammed (SAW)ring mountains and had to be towed to the next town. Our group Allah. Everywhere we traveled in the city of La Paz, we would then had to buy bus tickets to get to the airport to fly back to San stop at prayer times to make Salat. The local people would Francisco. While traveling on the bus, the other bus passengers gather around us and watch in amazement for they had never were surprised to be riding with a group of Muslim foreigners. At seen anything like it before. Many would ask us what we were the time of prayer, the brothers asked me to ask the bus driver if doing and inquire about Islam. he would stop the bus to enable us to pray. The bus’ music was Our next stop was the city of Santa Cruz. The roads to Santa so loud and distracting that it would have been impossible to Cruz were so tight and narrow that two buses couldn’t pass at have prayed in this environment. At first, the bus driver refused, the same time. We were so scared that our van would fall over as this was a direct bus and made no stops. But when we

The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 4 Prophet Mohammed (SAW): offered him a little coffee money for his trouble, he agreed. A Pioneer of the Environment When the bus suddenly stopped and all 6 of us brothers stood up simultaneously to exit the bus, the other passengers became BY FRANCESCA DE CHATEL alarmed. “What’s going on? What’s happening? Just to make “There is none amongst the believers who plants a tree, or sure that the bus driver would sows a seed, and then a bird, or a person, or an animal eats not leave us stranded in the thereof, but it is regarded as having given a charitable gift Andes mountains while we [for which there is great recompense].” [Al-Bukhari, III:513]. prayed, we prayed directly in front of the bus’ tires. All the The idea of the Prophet passengers stood in Mohammed (SAW) as a astonishment watching us pioneer of pray. After offering our environmentalism will prayers, the bus driver and his initially strike many as assistant asked us to sit in the strange: indeed, the term front of the bus and explain “environment” and related our religion, Islam, to him concepts like “ecology”, while the others slept. For the “environmental awareness” and next 8 hours, we explained “sustainability”, are Islam to him. By the end of modern-day inventions, the ride, he told us that this terms that were was the best thing that he had formulated in the face of ever heard in life. He wanted the growing concerns to embrace Islam but was about the contemporary hesitant. He asked, “Could I state of the natural world have been wrong for the past around us. 40 years? How can I suddenly leave all this after an 8 hour And yet a closer reading of the hadith, the body of work that drive?” He asked for some recounts significant events in the Prophet’s life, reveals that he literature on Islam and we gave him the few that we had. was a staunch advocate of environmental protection. One could say he was an “environmentalist avant la lettre”, a pioneer in the In addition to these two cities, we also visited other cities and domain of conservation, sustainable development and resource had many stops along the way. We met Muslims who were management, and one who constantly sought to maintain a originally from India, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and harmonious balance between man and nature. From all accounts Palestine. And at every stop, we encountered non-Muslim of his life and deeds, we read that the Prophet (SAW) had a people hungry for Islam. May Allah (SWT) reward the efforts of profound...... connection to the four elements, earth, water, fire the Bolivian Muslims and grant their dua’ for a permanent Masjid. and air. He (SAW) was a strong proponent of the sustainable use and Approximately 6 months after we had left Bolivia, we were told cultivation of land and water, proper treatment of animals, plants that a Muslim brother from England had visited Bolivia and loved and birds, and the equal rights of users. In this context the the community. In fact, when this brother went back to England modernity of the Prophet’s (SAW) view of the environment and he began to fundraise to establish a Masjid in La Paz, Bolivia. the concepts he introduced to his followers is particularly striking; Alhamdullilah, a brother in England heard about the project and certain passages of the hadith could easily be mistaken for purchased the Masjid (see photo below). The 3-story building he discussions about contemporary environmental issues. purchased for the Masjid included a large prayer hall for the men and women, a kitchen, a children’s classroom, and an apartment Three Principles for the Imam. Seven days after it was purchased, this brother passed away. May Allah (SWT) build a house for him in Jannah. The Prophet’s (SAW) environmental philosophy is first of all Hanging in the Masjid doorway in La Paz, Bolivia is a plaque in holistic: it assumes a fundamental link and interdependency memory of this brother. between all natural elements and bases its teachings on the premise that if man abuses or exhausts one element, the natural “And whatever good you send ahead for yourselves, you will world as a whole will suffer direct consequences. This belief is find it with Allah, better and having a great reward;” (Quran nowhere formulated in one concise phrase; it is rather an 73:20) underlying principle that forms the foundation of all the Prophet’s (SAW) actions and words, a life philosophy that defined him as a person. As Muslims, we should The three most important principles of the Prophet’s (SAW) always give the best of our philosophy of nature are based on the Qur’anic teachings and wealth and time because the concepts of tawhid (unity), khalifa (stewardship) and amana we have control of it now. (trust). Who knows when death will take us? Is anyone really Tawhid, the oneness of God, is a cornerstone of the Islamic faith. It recognizes the fact that there is One absolute Creator prepared? Every good deed and that man is responsible to Him for all his actions: “To God we do, every charity we belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth, for God give, every kind word we encompasses everything [4:126].” The Prophet (SAW) speak--all wis being re- acknowledges that God’s knowledge and power covers corded. everything. Therefore abusing one of his creations, whether it is a living being or a natural resource, is a sin. The Prophet (SAW) The New Masjid In La Paz, Bolivia considered all of God’s creations to be equal before God and he believed animals, but also land, forests and watercourses should have rights. The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 5 “Consider the water which you drink. Was it you that The concepts of khalifa, stewardship, and amana (trust) emerge brought it down from the rain cloud or We? If We had from the principle of tawhid. The Qur’an explains that mankind pleased, We could make it bitter” [56:68-70]. holds a privileged position among God’s creations on earth: he Saving water and safeguarding its purity were two important is chosen as khalifa, “vice-regent” and carries the responsibility issues for the Prophet (SAW). We have seen that his concern of caring for God’s earthly creations. Each individual is given this about the sustainable use of water led to the creation of haram task and privilege in the form of God’s trust. But the Qur’an zones in the vicinity of water sources. But even when water repeatedly warns believers against arrogance: they are no better was abundant, he advocated thriftiness: thus he recommended than other creatures. “No creature is there on earth nor a that believers perform wudu no more than three times, even if bird flying with its wings but they are nations like you they were near to a flowing spring or river. [6:38]”; “Surely the creation of the heavens and the earth is greater than the creation of man; but most people know not The Treatment of Animals [40:57]”. “If anyone wrongfully kills even a sparrow, let alone anything The Prophet (SAW) believed that the universe and the creations greater, he will face God’s interrogation” [Mishkat al Masabih]. in it – animals, plants, water, land – were not created for mankind. Man is allowed to use the resources but he can never own them. Thus while Islam allows land ownership, it has These words reflect the great reverence, respect and love that limitations: an owner can, for example, only own land if he the Prophet (SAW) always showed towards animals. He uses it; once he ceases to use it, he has to part with his believed that as part of God’s creation, animals should be possession. treated with dignity, and the hadith contains a large collection of traditions, admonitions and stories about his relationship to The Prophet (SAW) recognized man’s responsibility to God but animals. It shows that he had particular consideration for horses always maintained humility. Thus he (SAW) said: “When and camels: to him they were valiant companions during doomsday comes, if someone has a palm shoot in his hand, he journey and battle, and he found great solace and wisdom in should plant it,” suggesting that even when all hope is lost for their presence. mankind, one should sustain nature’s growth. He believed that nature remains a good in itself, even if man does not benefit Even in the slaughter of animals, the Prophet (SAW) showed from it. Similarly, the Prophet (SAW) incited believers to share great gentleness and sensitivity. While he did not practice the earth’s resources. He (SAW) said: “Muslims share alike in vegetarianism, the hadiths clearly show that the Prophet was three things – water, herbage and fire,” and he considered it a extremely sensitive to the suffering of animals. Thus he sin to withhold water from the thirsty. “No one can refuse recommends using sharp knives and a good method so that the surplus water without sinning against Allah and against man” animal can die a quick death with as little pain as possible. He [Mishkat al Masabih]. also warned against slaughtering an animal in the presence of The Prophet’s (SAW) attitude towards sustainable use of land, other animals, or letting the animal witness the sharpening of conservation of water and the treatment of animals is a further blades: to him that was equal to “slaughtering the animal illustration of the humility of his environmental philosophy. twice” and he emphatically condemned such practices as “abominable”. Sustainable Use of Land Conclusion “The earth has been created for me as a mosque and as a means of purification.” [Al-Bukhari I:331] With these words the It is impossible to do justice to the full scope and significance Prophet emphasizes the sacred nature of earth or soil, not only of Prophet Mohammed (SAW)’s environmental philosophy in as a pure entity but also as a purifying agent. This reverence this short article. His holistic view of nature and his towards soil is also demonstrated in the ritual of tayammum, or understanding of man’s place within the natural world “dry wudu” which permits the use of dust in the performance pioneered environmental awareness within the Muslim of ritual purification before prayer when water is not available. community. Sadly, the harmony that the Prophet (SAW) The Prophet (SAW) saw earth as subservient to man, but advocated between man and his environment has today all too recognised that it should not be overexploited or abused, and often been lost. As we face the effects of pollution and that it had rights, like the trees and wildlife living on it. In order overexploitation, desertification and water scarcity in some to protect land, forests and wildlife, the Prophet created parts of the world and floods and violent storms elsewhere, it is inviolable zones known as hima and haram, in which resources perhaps time for the world community as a whole, Muslims, were to be left untouched. Both are still in use today: haram Christians and Jews, Hindus and Buddhists, atheists and areas are often drawn up around wells and water sources to agnostics, to take a leaf out of the Prophet’s (SAW) book and protect the groundwater table from over-pumping. Hima applies particularly to wildlife and forestry and usually designates address the current environmental crisis seriously and wisely. an area of land where grazing and woodcutting are restricted, or where certain animal species are protected. ENTERING INTO CONVERSATIONS: IMAM SHAFIE The Prophet (SAW) not only encouraged the sustainable use of fertile lands, he also told his followers of the benefits of making “One who knows not, and himself knows he knows not, is a student. unused land productive: planting a tree, sowing a seed and Teach that person. “ irrigating dry land were all regarded as charitable deeds. “Whoever brings dead land to life, that is, cultivates wasteland, “One who knows not, and others know he knows, is a teacher. for him is a reward therein.” Learn from that person.“ Conservation of Water “One who knows not, and himself knows not that he knows, is humble. Encourage him.“ In the harsh desert environment where the Prophet (SAW) lived, water was synonymous to life. Water was a gift from “One who knows not, and himself knows not that he knows not, is stupid. God, the source of all life on earth as is testified in the Avoid that person.“ Qur’an: “We made from water every living thing” [21:30]. The Qur’an constantly reminds believers that they are but the In any dialogue keep these in mind, and you shall be guided to guardians of God’s creation on earth and that they should never productive discourses. take this creation for granted: The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 6 Verily, it is not the eyes that grow blind, but print Islamic books. The cost of printing a Braille book is much it is the hearts which are in the breasts that higher than printing other books. grow blind.” Quran 22:46 Due to the success of Madrassa An-Noor, people from other countries approached them for assistance in starting a school for the blind. As a result, they have embarked on an Outreach program organizing Quranic Braille workshops in different parts of the world. Workshops were held in India, Mauritius, England, Scotland, Bangladesh, Mozambique and locally in other parts of South Africa. The demand of such workshops is very high. The purpose of these workshops is to train teachers and empower them so that the blind can benefit directly.

Due to the recent increase of students wishing to study at Madrassa AN-Noor, the center has acquired a larger facility. The new location for the school is a farm in Cedara, which is about 17 kilometers from the old school site. Not only will this school teach religious instruction, but sports, activities, and other important living skills. They are requesting that Islamic Bulletin readers make Dua’ for their success and that Allah (Ta’ala) accept their efforts.

For more information, you can email them directly at: [email protected] Madrassa An-Noor For The Blind In South Africa, the government provides secular education through its special schools for the disabled. However, the Muslim community always felt a need for an institution that Would You Like To Finish Reading would cater specifically for their religious requirements. Parents were particularly anxious about their children’s Islamic The Holy Quran Every Month? education. Although the Holy Quran was available in Braille, CHECK THIS OUT!!! there was no teacher or special school for the blind. The best any parent could hope for was for their child to attend the conventional religious school. Read 4.5 Pages X 5 Prayers a day Due to large class sizes and time constraints at regular religious schools, it was not possible for a disabled child to get special attention. A disabled child requires special attention and needs X 30 Days = 604 pages (Number of pages in help to travel the extra mile. the Qur’an ) Many members of the South African community were not WOW!! aware of this reality. Since the learners were few in number, they felt that it would be very expensive to run a special school See how easy it is to read the entire Quran each for the disabled and the money could be productively utilized month, just by spending a few minutes after elsewhere. each prayer.

However, some dedicated parents including a religious leader WHAT AN INVESTMENT !!! took up the challenge. The religious scholar began by learning Braille and soon thereafter Madrassa An-Noor For the Blind was If you are in a real hurry, you can finish it once established in 1986 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The every two months by reading just 2 pages after each location of this first school was a converted garage complete prayer. with carpeted floors and a few desks to place the Qurans on. Just a reminder: The school for the blind started with one student who began learning the “Qaaida” or primer. A short time late, a few other Each letter a person reads counts 10 hasanat (virtues) students joined. In less than a year, three students completed the Holy Quran. All of their Quranic lessons were taught in What about a word ?? Braille. What about a line ?? At most libraries for the blind around the world, very little Islamic literature in the English language is found. The Blind What about a page ?? use Braille, audio recordings and computers for information. With the advance of technology, screen reading software What about the whole Qur’an ?? programs are also widely used.

At Madrassa An-Noor for the Blind, they built their own recording studio and began producing “Talking Books”. They also established a Braille printing press that enabled them to The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 7 HOW I EMBRACED ISLAM This was too much for me, especially since the evangelists A Christian Minister’s Conversion to Islam that we used to travel around with all hated Muslims and Islam very much. They even said things that were not true to Yusuf Estes make people afraid of Islam. So, why would I want anything I was born into a very strong Christian family in the Midwest. to do with these people? Our family and their ancestors not only built the churches and schools across this land, but actually were the same ones who Meeting the First Muslim came here in the first place. While I was still in elementary My father was very active in supporting church work, we relocated in Houston, Texas especially church school programs. He becae and ordained in 1949 (I’m old). We attended minister in the 1970s. He and his wife (my stepmother) church regularly and I was knew many of the TV evangelists and preachers and even baptized at the age of 12 in visited Oral Roberts and helped in the building of the “Prayer Pasadena, Texas. As a teenager, I Tower” in Tulsa, OK. They also were strong supporters of wanted to visit other churches to Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Fae Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, learn more of their teachings and John Haggi and the biggest enemy to Islam in America, Pat beliefs. The Baptists, Method- Robertson. ists, Episcopalians, Charismatic movements, Nazarene, Church Father of Yusuf Estes of Christ, Church of God, Dad and his wife worked together and were most active in Church of God in Christ, Full recording “Praise” tapes and distributing them for free to Gospel, Agape, Catholic, people in retirement homes, hospitals and homes for the Presbyterian and many more. I elderly. And then in 1991 he began doing business with a developed quite a thirst for the man from Egypt and told me that he wanted me to meet “Gospel” or as we say; “Good News.” My research into religion him. This idea appealed to me when I thought about the did not stop with Christianity. Not at all. Hinduism, Judaism, idea of having an international flavor. You know, the Buddhism, Metaphysics, native American beliefs were all a part pyramids, sphinx, Nile River and all that. Then my father of my studies. Just about the only one that I did not look into mentioned that this man was a ‘Moslem.’ I couldn’t believe seriously was “Islam”. Why? Good question. my ears. A ‘Moslem?’ No way. I reminded my dad of the Anyway, I became very interested in different types of music, various different things that we had heard about these especially Gospel and Classical. Because my whole family was people, how they are terrorists, hijackers, kidnappers, religious and musical it followed that I too would begin my bombers and who knows what else? Not to mention that: studies in both areas. All this set me for the logical position of they don’t believe in God; they kiss the ground five times a Music Minister in many of the churches that I became affiliated day and they worship a black box in the desert. with over the years. I started teaching keyboard instruments in No. I did not want to meet this ‘Moslem’ man. No way. 1960 and by 1963 owned my own studios in Laurel, Maryland, My father insisted that I meet him and reassured me that he called “Estes Music Studios.” was a very nice person. So, I gave in and agreed to the Over the next 30 years my father and I worked together in meeting. But on my terms. I agreed to meet him on a many business projects. We had entertainment programs, shows Sunday after church so we would be all prayed up and in and attractions. We opened piano and organ stores all the way good standing with the Lord. I would be carrying my Bible from Texas and Oklahoma to Florida. I made millions of dollars under my arm as usual. I would have my big shiny cross in those years, but could not find the peace of mind that can dangling and I would have on my cap which says: “Jesus is only come through knowing the truth and finding the real plan Lord” right across the front. My wife and two young of salvation. I’m sure you have asked yourself the question; daughters came along and we were ready for our first “Why did God create me?” or “What is it that God wants me to encounter with the ‘Moslems.’ do?” or “Exactly who is God, anyway?” “Why do we believe in When I came into the shop and asked my father where the ‘original sin?” and “Why would the sons of Adam be forced to ‘Moslem’ was, he pointed and said: “He’s right over there.” I accept his ‘sins’ and then as a result be punished forever. But if was confused. That couldn’t be the Moslem. No way. you asked anyone these questions, they would probably tell you I’m looking for a huge man with flowing robes and big turban that you have to believe without asking, or that it is a ‘mystery’ on his head, a beard half way down his shirt and eyebrows and you shouldn’t ask. that go all the way across his forehead. And then there is the concept of the ‘Trinity.’ If I would ask This man had no beard. In fact, he didn’t even have any hair preachers or ministers to give me some sort of an idea how on his head at all. He was very close to bald. And he was ‘one’ could figure out to become ‘three’ or how God Himself, very pleasant with a warm welcome and handshake. This Who can do anything He Wills to do, cannot just forgive didn’t make sense. I thought they are terrorists and bombers. people’s sins, but rather and had to become a man, come down What is this all about? on earth, be a human, and then take on the sins of all people. Keeping in mind that all along He is still God of the whole universe and does as He Wills to do, both in and outside of the Surprised At What Muslims Believe universe as we know it. Never mind. I’ll get right to work on this guy. He needs to be Then one day in 1991, I came to know that the Muslims ‘saved’ and me and the Lord are going to do it. So, after a believed in the Bible. I was shocked. How could this be? But quick introduction, I asked him: that’s not all, they believe in Jesus as: “Do you believe in God?” · A true messenger of God; He said: “Yes.” (Good!) · Prophet of God; Then I said: “Do you believe in Adam and Eve?” · Miracle birth without human intervention; He said: “Yes.” · He is with God now I said: “What about Abraham? You believe in him and how · He was the ‘Christ’ or Messiah as predicted in the he tried to sacrifice his son for God?” Bible; He said: “Yes.” · And most important, he will be coming back in the Last Days to lead the believers against the ‘Antichrist.’ The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 8 Then I asked: “What about Moses?” wonder if I was in the cardiac ward or the mental ward. Again he said: “Yes.” I knew the man was lonely and depressed and needed Then: “What about the other prophets, David, Solomon and someone in his life. So, I began to ‘witness’ to him about the John the Baptist?” Lord. I read to him out of the book of Jonah in the Old He said: “Yes.” Testament. I shared the story of the prophet Jonah who had I asked: “Do you believe in the Bible?” been sent by the Lord to call his people to the correct way. Again, he said: “Yes.” Jonah had left his people and escaped by boat to leave his city So, now it was time for the big question: “Do you believe in and head out to sea. A storm came up and the ship almost Jesus? That he was the Christ of God?” capsized and the people on board threw Jonah over the side Again he said: “Yes.” of the ship. A whale came up to the surface and grabbed Well, now, this was going to be easier than I had thought. He Jonah, swallowed him and then went down to the bottom of was just about ready to be baptized only he didn’t know it. the sea, where he stayed for 3 days and 3 nights. Yet because And I was just the one to do it, too. I was winning souls to the of God’s Mercy, He caused the whale to rise to the surface Lord day after day and this would be a big achievement for and then spit Jonah out to return back home safely to his city me, to catch one of these ‘Moslems’ and ‘convert’ him to of Nineveh. And the idea was that we can’t really run away Christianity. I asked him if he liked tea and he said he did. So from our problems because we always know what we have off we went to a little shop in the mall to sit and talk about done. And what is more, God also always knows what we my favorite subject: Beliefs. While we sat in that little coffee have done. shop for hours talking (I did most of the talking) I came to know that he was very nice, quiet and even a bit shy. He After sharing this story with the man in the wheelchair, he listened attentively to every word that I had to say looked up at me and apologized. He told me and did not interrupt even one time. I liked this he was sorry for his rude behavior and that he man’s way and thought that he had definite had experienced some real serious problems potential to become a good Christian. Little did I recently. Then he said that he wanted to know the course of events about to unravel in front confess something to me. And I said that I was of my eyes. not a Catholic priest and I don’t handle First of all, I agreed with my father that we should Well, now, this confessions. He replied back to me that he do business with this man and even encouraged was going to be knew that. In fact, he said: “I am a Catholic the idea of him traveling along with me on my easier than I had priest.” I was shocked. Here I had been trying business trips across the northern part of Texas. to preach Christianity to a priest. What in the Day after day we would ride together and discuss thought. He was world was happening here? The priest began to various issues pertaining to different beliefs that just about ready share his story of being a missionary for the people have. And along the way, I could of course to be baptized church for over 12 years to south and Central interject some of my favorite radio programs of only he didn’t America and Mexico and even in New York’s worship and praise to help bring the message to know it. ‘Hell’s Kitchen.’ When he was released from this poor individual. We talked about the concept the hospital he needed a place to go to recover of God; the meaning of life; the purpose of and rather than let him go to stay with a creation; the prophets and their mission and how Catholic family, I told my dad that we should God reveals His Will to mankind. We also shared a lot of invite him to come out and live with us in the country along personal experiences and ideas as well. with our families and Mohamed. It was agreed by all that he One day I came to know that my friend Mohamed was going would so, he moved out right away. to move out of the home he had been sharing with a friend of During the trip out to our home, I talked with the priest about his and was going to be living in the mosque for a time. I some of the concepts of beliefs in Islam and to my surprise he went to my dad and asked him if we could invite Mohamed to agreed and then shared even more about this with me. I was come out to our big home in the country and stay there with shocked when he told me that Catholic priests actually study us. After all, he could share some of the work and some Islam and some even carry doctors degrees in this subject. expenses and he would be right there when we were ready to This was all very enlightening to me. But there was still a lot go traveling around. My father agreed and Mohamed moved more to come. in. Of course I still would find time to visit my fellow preachers and evangelists around the state of Texas. One of After settling in, we all began to gather around the kitchen them lived on the Texas — Mexico border and another lived table after dinner every night to discuss religion. My father near the Oklahoma border. One preacher liked to a huge would bring his King James Version of the Bible, I would bring wooden cross that was bigger than a car. He would carry it out my Revised Standard Version of the Bible, my wife had over his shoulder and drag the bottom on the ground and go another version of the Bible (maybe something like Jimmy down the road or freeway hauling these two beams formed in Swaggart’s ‘Good News For Modern Man.” The priest of the shape of a cross. People would stop their cars and come course, had the Catholic Bible which has 7 more books in it over to him and ask him what was going on and he would give that the Protestant Bible. So we spent more time talking about them pamphlets and booklets on Christianity. which Bible was the right one or the most correct one, than we did trying to convince Mohamed about becoming a Christian. Group Discussions on Faith At one point I recall asking him about the Quran and how One day my friend with the cross had a heart attack and had many versions of it there were in the last 1,400 years. He told to go to the Veterans Hospital where he stayed for quite a me that there was only ONE QURAN. And that it had never long while. I used to visit him in the hospital several times a been changed. Yet he let me know that the Quran had been week and I would take Mohamed with me with the hopes memorized by hundreds of thousands of people, in it’s that we could all share together in the subject of beliefs and entirety and was scattered about the earth in many different religions. My friend was not very impressed and it was obvious countries. Over the centuries since the Quran was revealed that he did not want to know anything about Islam. Then one millions have memorized it completely and have taught it to day a man who was sharing the room with my friend came others who have memorized it completely, from cover to rolling into the room in his wheelchair. I went to him and cover, letter perfect without mistakes. asked him his name and he said that it didn’t matter and when This did not seem possible to me. After all, the original I asked him where he was from he said he was from the languages of the Bible have all been dead languages for planet Jupiter. I thought about what he said and then began to centuries and the documents themselves have been lost in their originals for hundreds and thousands of years. So, how The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 9 could it be that something like this could be so easy to My father’s wife was the last of all to acknowledge that Jesus preserve and to recite from cover to cover. could not be a son of God and that he must have been a mighty prophet of God, but not God. The Catholic Priest Converts to Islam Now stop and think. A whole entire household of people from Anyway, one day the priest asked Mohamed if he might varying backgrounds and ethnic groups coming together in truth accompany him to the mosque to see what it was like there. to learn how to know and worship the Creator and Sustainer of They came back talking about their experience there and we the Universe. Think. A Catholic priest. A minister of music and could not wait to ask the priest what it was like and what preacher. An ordained minister and builder of Christian schools. types of ceremonies they performed. He said they didn’t really And they all come into Islam! Only by His Mercy were we all ‘do’ anything. They just came and prayed and left. I said: guided to see the real truth of Islam without any blinders on “They left? Without any speeches or singing?” He said that was their eyes any longer. right. A few more days went by and the Catholic priest asked Mohamed if he might join him again for a trip to the mosque Phenomenon of Priests Converting to Islam which they did. But this time it was different. They did not come back for a very long time. It became dark and we If I were to stop right here, I’m sure that you would have to worried that something might have happened to them. Finally admit that at least, this is an amazing story, right? After all, three they arrived and when they came in the door I immediately religious leaders of three separate denominations all going into recognized Mohamed, but who was this alongside of him? one very opposite belief at the same time and then soon after Someone wearing a white robe and a white cap. Hold on a the rest of the household? minute! It was the priest. I said to him: “Pete? — Did you But that is not all. There is more! The same year, while I was in become a ‘Moslem?’ He said that he had entered into Islam Grand Prairie, Texas (near Dallas) I met a Baptist seminary that very day. THE PRIEST BECAME A MUSLIM!! What next? student from Tennessee named Joe, who also came to Islam (You’ll see). after reading the Holy Quran while in BAPTIST SEMINARY COLLEGE! There are others as well. I recall the case of the Catholic priest I Follow Him and Submit Myself to God in a college town who talked about the good things in Islam so So, I went upstairs to think things over a bit and began to talk much that I was forced to ask him why he didn’t enter Islam. He to my wife about the whole subject. She then told me that she replied: “What? And lose my job?” His name is Father John and too was going to enter into Islam, because she knew it was the there is still hope for him yet. truth. I was really shocked now. I went downstairs and woke More? Yes. The very next year I met a former Catholic priest up Mohamed and asked him to come outside with me for a who had been a missionary for 8 years in Africa. He learned discussion. We walked and talked that whole night through. By about Islam while he was there and entered into Islam. He then the time he was ready to pray Fajr (the morning prayer of the changed his name to Omar and moved to Dallas Texas. Muslims) I knew that the truth had come at last and now it Any more? Again, yes. Two years later, while in San Antonio, was up to me to do my part. I went out back behind my Texas I was introduced to a former Arch Bishop of the Orthodox father’s house and found an old piece of plywood lying under Church of Russia who learned about Islam and gave up his an overhang and right there I put my head down on the position to enter Islam. ground facing the direction that the Muslims pray five times a And since my own entrance into Islam and becoming a chaplain day. to the Muslims throughout the country and around the world, I Now then in that position, with my body stretched out on the have encountered many more individuals who were leaders, plywood and my head on the ground, I asked: “O God. If you teachers and scholars in other religions who learned about Islam are there, guide me, guide me.” And then after a while I and entered into it. They came from Hindus, Jews, Catholics, raised up my head and I noticed something. No, I didn’t see Protestants, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Greek and Russian Orthodox, birds or angels coming out of the sky nor did I hear voices or Coptic Christians from Egypt, non-denominational churches and music, nor did I see bright lights and flashes. What I did notice even scientists who had been atheists. Why? Good question. was a change inside of me. I was aware now more than ever before that it was time for me to stop lying and cheating and doing sneaky business deals. It was time that I really work at Advice Regarding Seeking the Truth being an honest and upright man. I knew now what I had to May I suggest to the seeker of truth do the following NINE STEPS do. So I went upstairs and took a shower with the distinct idea for purification of the mind: that I was ‘washing’ away the sinful old person that I had become over the years. And I was now coming into a new, 1. Clean their mind, their heart and their soul real good. fresh life. A life based on truth and proof. 2. Clear away all the prejudices and biases. Around 11:00 A.M. that morning, I stood before two 3. Read a good translation of the meaning of the Holy Quran in witnesses, one the ex-priest, formerly known as Father Peter a language that they can understand best. Jacob’s, and the other Mohamed Abel Rehman and announced 4. Take some time. my ‘shahadah’ (open testimony to the Oneness of God and 5. Read and reflect. the prophethood of Muhammad, peace be upon him). 6. Think and pray. 7. And keep on asking the One who created you in the first My Wife and My Father Follow and Convert to Islam place, to guide you to the truth. 8. Keep this up for a few months. And be regular in it. A few minutes later, my wife follows along and gave the same 9. Above all, do not let others who are poisoned in their thinking testimony. But hers was in front of 3 witnesses (me being the influence you while your are in this state of “rebirth of the soul.” third). My father was a bit more reserved on the subject and waited a The rest is between you and the Almighty Lord of the Universe. few more months before he made his shahadah (public If you truly love Him, then He already knows it and He will deal testimony). But he did finally commit to Islam and began with each of us according to our hearts. offering prayers right along with me and the other Muslims in Peace to you and Guidance from Allah the One Almighty God, the local masjid (mosque). Creator and Sustainer of all that exists. The children were taken out of the Christian school and placed in Muslim schools. And now ten years later, they are memorizing much of the Quran and the teachings of Islam. .

The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 10 WHAT COULD YOU GAIN FROM FASTING? to manage and practise spirituality and not to eat excessively. The essential part of spirituality in food is that we are grateful and thankful The fasts of Ramadan can improve a person’s health, but – if the for the food we get. correct diet is not followed – can possibly worsen it! The deciding factor is not the fast itself, but rather what is consumed in the non- The blessed Prophet once said: “God has a right over you; your body fasting hours. To fully benefit has a right over you…” To strike a balance between the needs of the from fasting, a person should physical body and your spiritual needs, you must on the one hand spare a great deal of thought to consume the right type and amount of food and on the other hand the type and quantity of food develop excellent interpersonal skills. they will indulge in through the blessed month. Overeating can The blessed Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said: “I have only been sent not only harm the body but it is for the perfection of character”. thought also to interfere with a person’s spiritual growth during Fasting in the month of Ramadan is an opportunity to make significant the month. A diet that has less changes in your lifestyle and develop the resolve to make healthy living than a normal amount of food choices. but is sufficiently balanced will keep a person healthy and Fasting is not only a physical but also a spiritual exercise that has many active during the month of lasting benefits. Ramadan. 1. Heightened consciousness of God The diet should be simple and not differ too much from one’s normal everyday diet. It should contain foods from all the major food Fasting helps you to become less preoccupied with bodily appetites, groups and gives the heart and mind the freedom to reflect upon deeper spiritual matters, such as your relationship with God and with fellow Food has a great with one’s relationship with God. Chapter 20, verse human beings. It enables a person to develop sustained consciousness 81 of the Qur’an states: of God (Taqwa). “Eat of the good and wholesome things that We have provided for your sustenance, but indulge in no excess therein.” 2. Healthy lifestyle

The physical body is a gift from God; it is given to humans as an A fasting person learns restraint, and only responds to hunger and thirst amanah (in trust) to take care of for a fixed period. How much food is in the heightened level of consciousness and discipline. Through consumed and the choice of food has a direct impact on the fasting, a person begins to appreciate the value of food. In the Qur’an physical and spiritual well-being of the person. The food that you “healthy and wholesome food” is described as the best of provisions. consume affects your behavior and personality. Wholesome, natural Thus fasting helps a person to choose and healthy food assists the development of a good personality. a healthier lifestyle by making small yet lasting changes to their daily Overeating has long been frowned upon in Islam as it is thought to diet. increase worldly appetites and cause sluggishness, thereby ‘dulling’ the soul, hampering spiritual growth and increasing physical ailments. 3. Compassion and charity The blessed Prophet (SAW) said: When fasting, you should think of those in need who may be fasting “The children of Adam fill no vessel worse than their stomach. but have no food at the start or the end of their fast, those whose tiny Sufficient for him is a few morsels to keep his back straight. If he must children are also having to go hungry because of poverty. The Prophet eat more, then a third should be for his food, a third for his drink, Muhammad described Ramadan as “the month of mercy”. His and a third left for air.” (Sunan al-Tirmidhî) companions observed: “The Prophet (Muhammad) was the most generous of people, but he would be his most generous during Islam sees health and ‘well-being’ as much more than just bodily Ramadan …” (Sahih al-Bukhari) health: well-being or tranquillity requires a strong relationship with one’s spirituality, good physical health, mental happiness, a sense of 4. Community spirit purpose and good character and relationships. Islam makes a strong connection between food and worship and teaches that all forms of During Ramadan, the one who fasts has heightened concerns for the worship have a deeper purpose and impact and contribute in some well-being of the community – rich and poor, intellectuals and way to individual and social well-being. labourers. Community spirit is promoted as people start fasting at the same time and break their fast at the same time, and reflect together Suhoor, the pre-dawn meal, should be a wholesome, moderate meal through longer prayer and deeper devotions. It is greatly encouraged that is filling and provides enough energy for many hours. It is that families invite each other to break their fast together. therefore particularly important to include slowly-digesting foods in the suhoor. 5. A fast without the spirit is empty of blessing Iftar is the meal which breaks the day’s fast. This meal could include Abstention for long hours can be very hard physically and spiritually. dates, following the Prophetic traditions. However, by the end of the long month you should feel cleansed and with a renewed spirit. Ramadan is an ideal time to break bad habits, to Dates will provide a refreshing burst of much-needed energy. Fruit reflect on personality and to improve your character. Those who fast juices will also have a similar, revitalizing effect. The meal should but make no change to their lives except delaying a meal cannot really remain a meal and not become a feast! Try to minimise the rich, expect to become any different in their behaviour during or after special dishes that traditionally celebrate the fast and keep to the Ramadan. In many ways, this is a wasted fast, as stressed in a number advice of sayings of the blessed Prophet: fasting is not merely “abstention from of the Prophet Mohammed (SAW). eating and drinking, but also from vain speech and foul language”. (Sahih al-Bukhari) In chapter 7, verse 31 the Qur’an is categorical: “Eat and drink freely: but waste not by excess, for He does not like Fasting is, therefore, about much more than just giving up food and the wasters.” drink and hoping to lose a couple of pounds. By fasting, a person reflects, acts and betters his or her character. Islam thus creates a sense of responsibility in people to take a healthy living lifestyle as normal. Fasting in the month of Ramadan teaches us

The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 11 “He wants that you must complete the same number of days and that you must magnify Allah (by saying Allah Akbar) for having guided you, so that you may be grateful to Him.” AFTER (Quran 2: 185) Ramadan is a time to correct and change our habits that we have acquired over the year without the whispers of Satan. For now is RAMADAN the time in which Shaytan is locked up and he does not have the chance to twist our thoughts and change our good actions. The first step is always hard to take, but Ramadan is the time to do it. So after Ramadan, may we all try to keep up with our good deeds—praying at the correct times, charity to the less fortunate, Even though Ramadan is ending, we all have to make sure it and genuinely being more patient and kind with one another. stays with us. How, might you ask? Everybody knows that May Allah (SWT) shower us with blessings, forgive our sins and Ramadan lasts only for a month, 29 or 30 wonderful days. grant us all Paradise. Ameen This special month is a time to get closer to Allah (SWT), physically and mentally. And we have to take care not to lose this closeness with Allah (SWT). We know that Ramadan is a very special time in our lives. In One of the ways in which we can continue with our good deeds addition to the obvious, fasting from sunrise to sunset, we after Ramadan is to make sure that we are careful must also abstain from so many other things. One added to keep our Salat. So in the following pages you bonus that comes with fasting is that we actually learn to be will find an updated Mosque list for both more kind to those around us. Northern and Southern California. This prayer Since we strive to strengthen our bodies with both the location list was designed with phone numbers, physical and mental power that we need to complete our addresses, web addresses if available, and driving directions to fasts, let’s take that a step further and make it last help Muslims find prayer locations easily. In fact, if you click on throughout the year. It takes real devotion to Allah to fast for our web site, www.islamicbulletin.org, then click on enter here, His sake only. There is a hadith narrated by Sufyaan ibn click on mosque, then choose the mosque that you would like to ‘Abdallah (RA) who said, “O Messenger of Allah (SAW), tell visit. This online version allows you to type in your address and it me something about Islam, which I cannot ask anyone else will prepare driving directions for you. In addition, if you type in besides you.” He (SAW) replied, “Say, ‘I believe in Allah’ and then be steadfast (upon that).” Saheeh Muslim your address in the Qibla locator, it will create a red line pointing This hadith is proof that we are obligated, after having faith to the Qibla. This will help you in knowing the direction in which in Allah, to be steadfast in obeying Allah by performing the to pray. May Allah reward the people who have designed these obligatory acts and avoiding the prohibited ones. This is two features, which enable us to pray and find masjids easily. achieved by following the Straight Path, which is Islam. If a Remember, the Holy Prophet (SAW) said, “Salat (prayer) is the Muslim lives through Ramadan and spent his days in fasting first act that the person will be accountable for.” and his nights in prayer and he accustomed himself to doing acts of good, then he must continue to remain upon this obedience to Allah at all times. In fact, steadfastness after Ramadan is the greatest sign that Death is the most certain aspect of life. 6,178 people die in the one has gained benefit from the month of Ramadan. These world every hour, according to the latest are the real signs of a successful Ramadan. Furthermore, the statistics. These are people of all ages, dying of deeds of a Muslim do not come to an end with the end of all causes. Some of these deaths make Ramadan. Rather, they continue and extend throughout the headlines, but the great majority do not. Yet, year. Allah (SWT) says, everyone will enter his grave the same way, “And worship your Lord until the certainty (death) comes alone, at the time appointed by God. Even to you.” (Al Hijr; 99) though death happens all the time, we feel that it won’t happen to us - at least, not When the fasting of Ramadan comes to an end, then indeed the voluntary fast is prescribed throughout the entire year. anytime soon. We fail to recognize it as the beginning of When standing in prayer at night in Ramadan comes to an another life, a life that will never end, and a life where we will end, then indeed the entire year is a time for performing the reap what we sowed here. The Prophet (pbuh) said, “Truly smart night prayer. And if zakat ul fitr comes to an end then there is the person who controlled his desires and prepared for the life is still the zakat that is still obligatory as well as the voluntary after death.” charity that lasts the whole year. This goes the same for reciting the Quran and pondering over its meaning, as well We never know when Allah will take our lives away from this as every other good deed that was sought, for these can be world. Therefore, prepare ahead of time to leave this world and performed at all times. Therefore, the zeal that was felt for our Akhirah. One of the important duties on Muslims is to throughout Ramadan must continue through the whole year. prepare a Last Will and Testament. If someone lives in a non- Muslim environment, like in the western world, a will must be It is unfortunate to find that some people perform worship made ahead of time, with arrangements for your inheritance and by doing righteous deeds only during Ramadan. They guard burial. To help you, in the center four pages of this publication, strictly upon their five daily prayers, they recite Quran, and we have positioned for easy removal a Last Will and Testament. they give charity. But when Ramadan comes to an end, they We also have an Arabic, French, and Spanish version on our grow lazy in their worship. Sometimes, they even abandon website, www.islamicbulletin.org, then click on enter here, click their obligation entirely. on Last Will. We encourage you to copy, share, and distribute the Will. Truly, there is much reward that Allah grants his servant in the fasting of Ramadan. Allah (SWT) says in the Quran,

The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 12 CALIFORNIA PRAYER LOCATIONS

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MUHAJEREEN MASJID REDDING SEASIDE Directions Start From San Francisco Bay 185 Folsom St, Hayward, 94544, 510-786- ISLAMIC CENTER OF REDDING MONTEREY MOSQUE Bridge (Highway 80) 0313,101S* 92E(Bridge)*880S*Tennyson E*R 12319 Lake Blvd, Redding, 96003, 530-243- 405 Elm St., Seaside 93955, 831-899-2969,*101S* Huntwood*Folsom L 4137,*5N *Lake Blvd. Ex W(3 miles)* CA 156W*CA1S*CA218 Ex Seaside*Canyon Delrey ALAMEDA MASJID ABU BAKER SIDIQ [email protected] L*L Delmonte*Elm R www.montereymosque.org ISLAMIC CENTER OF ALAMEDA 29414 Mission Blvd, Hayward, 94544, 510-582-2730, RICHMOND SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO 901 Santa Clara Ave., 94501, 510-748-9052, *101S*92E (Bridge)*880S*Industrial Ex E*Mission L RICHMOND MUSALLA MASJID AL-JAME 80E*880S* 5th St Ex*L Broadway* R Webster * L HAYWARD ISLAMIC CENTER 1330 Cutting Blvd, Richmond 94804, 80E*580W*Ex 373 Alta Vista Dr, SSF, 94080, 650-871-7183,101S* Constitution* Lincoln L*R 9*Santa 26320 Gading Rd, Hayward,94544,510-786- E Harbor R*Cutting R* 280S*Westborough Ex L*Junipero Serra R*Avalon Clara R*www.alamedamosque.org 2662,*101S *92E*880S*Tennyson Ex E*Patrick [email protected] L*Valverde R becomes Alta Vista MASJID QUBA L*becomes Gading MASJID AL-RAHMAN STOCKTON 707 Haight Ave, 94501, 510-337- ZAYTUNA INSTITUTE 1110 36th St, Richmond,94804,510-236- STOCKTON ISLAMIC CENTER 1277, 80E*980S*Jackson Ex L*8th 631 Jackson St., Hayward, 94544, 510-582- 8130,*80E*San Pablo Dam Rd Ex L*San Pablo L*L 1130 S Pilgrim St,95205,209-466-9101, L*Webster L*Haight 1979*101S *92E (Bridge) becomes Lowell*R 36th 80E*580E*205*5N*Charter R*Airport L*Jackson L ANTIOCH Jackson*www.zaytuna.org SACRAMENTO MASJID UMAR FAROOQ ISLAMIC CENTER OF THE EAST HERCULES SACRAMENTO ISLAMIC MOSQUE 1304 E. Hammer Lane # 7, 95210, 209-477-0877, BAY HERCULES MUSALLAH 411 V Street, Sacramento, 95818, 916-443-5167, 80E*580E*205N*5N*Hammer Ln R*West Lane R 311 W18th St, 91234, 925-756-1652, 1500 Sycamore Ave,. B 8, Hercules, 94547, 80E* *80E*Business 80*5th St Ex L-Lt*V St L AS-SIDDIQ MUSLIM CENTER 925-727-4211 * 80E* 580E Hercules Ex*Sycamore L* Sycamore Place R* MASJID ANNUR 2065 E 8th St, Stockton, 95206, 209-941-4915, 80E* *24E*680N*4E*Lst L*W 18th R* upstairs* [email protected] 6990 65th St, Sacramento,95823,916-392- 580E*205*5N*Charter Way Ex R*Airport R*8th St L BELMONT LIVE OAK 6687,*80E* 99S Florin Rd E Ex*65th L* TRACY YASEEN FOUNDATION LIVE OAK ISLAMIC CENTER www.masjidannur.com TRACY ISLAMIC CENTER 621 Masonic Way,Belmont,94002,650-591- 2825 Fir Street, Live Oak, 95953, 530-695-2617*80E MASJID-AS-SABUR 11299 Larch Rd., Tracy, 95376, 209-830-6286, 3690*101S *Ralston W. R* Hiller R*Masonic L* *5N* 99N* Pinnington L*P St L*To Fir St 4920 15th Ave, Sacramento, 95820, 916-451-7744, 80E*580E*205N*Ex Tracy Blvd L*L on Larch Rd* www.yaseen.org LIVERMORE *80E*99S*12th Ex L*Stockton R*15th Ave L www.tracyislamiccenter.com BERKELEY ISLAMIC CENTER OF LIVERMORE SOUTH SACRAMENTO ISLAMIC CENTER AFGHANI MASJID MSA AT UC-BERKELEY 379-C S.Livermore Ave., 94550, *925-443-1826, 7285 25th St, Sacramento, 95822, 916-424-4770, 503 West Larch Rd., Tracy, 95376, 209-839-2275, 506 Eshleman Hall,Berkeley,94720,80E*University Ex 80E*580E*Livermore Ex S R* www.iclonline-ca.org *80E*99S*Florin Ex W* 25th St L 80E*580E*205N*Ex Tracy Blvd L*R on Larch Rd* Oxford R*DurantL*TelegraphL*www.msa.berkeley.edu LODI MASJID IBRAHIM VACAVILLE Jumha is @ 1:15pm at the YWCA (2600 Bancroft LODI MUSLIM MOSQUE 3449 Rio Linda Bl.,95838, 916 753 9302, 80E* VACAVILLE MUSLIM ASSOCIATION Way) 210 Poplar Av,Lodi,95247,209-333-9619,80E*580E* Norwood Ex R*Grand L*Rio Linda L* 131 Bush St, Vacaville, 95688, 707-455-8930, 80E* CAPITOLA (Santa Cruz Area) 205N*5N*4E*99N*L Kettleman*R Stockton*Poplar R www.masjidibrahim.com Bela Vista Rd L*Davis L*Mason R*Depot L*Bush L SANTA CRUZ ISLAMIC CENTER FAROOQIA ISLAMIC CENTER SALAM COMMUNITY CENTER VALLEJO 4401 Capitola Rd #2, Capitola, 95010, 831-633- 12828 N. Lower Sacramento Rd, Lodi, 95242, 209- 4541 College Oak Dr. Sacramento,95841,916-979- VALLEJO MOSQUE 6532, 101S*CA85 S Ex 398B Santa Cruz*CA-17S 333-2946,80E*580E*205N*5N*8 Mile Rd Ex R*L N. 1933 80E*Madison Ex*College Oak R 727 Sonoma Blvd, Vallejo, 94590, 707-558-8229, (880S)* CA1S-Watsonville*41st Ave Ex R* L Lower www.salamcenter.org 80E*After Toll Booth-Sonoma Blvd*Follow Rd* Capitola MADERA MASJID AL-MU’MINEEN www.islamiccenterofvallejo.com CASTROVILLE (Santa Cruz Area) MADERA MASJID 9090 Fruitridge Road, Sacramento, CA 95826, 916- VISALIA CASTROVILLE MOSQUE 16634 26th Rd, Madera, 93638,559-675-9910,80E* 383-1773, 80E*50E*Watt Ave. South*Fruitridge L VISALIA MASJID 11080 Cooper St, Castroville,95012,831-632-0905, 580E *205*5N*120-Manteca 99S*17 Ex R*Ovr Brg See also Elk Grove 1317 S Divisidero St, Visalia, 93277, 559-732-9973, 101S *CA85 S Ex 398B Santa Cruz*CA 17S (880S) R*L 26th SALINAS 80E*580E*205*5N*120E*99S*198E Ex* Mooney Santa Cruz*L Merritt St*L Cooper MERCED THE ISLAMIC COMMUNITY OF SALINAS R*Tulare R*Divisidero R (Near Divisidero School) CHICO MERCED ISLAMIC CENTER 333 Capitol St, Salinas, 93901, 831-422- WOODLAND ISLAMIC CENTER OF CHICO 2322 Ashby Rd, Merced,95348,209-725- 0900,101S*Ex N Main St*R Alisal*L WOODLAND MOSQUE 1316 Nord Av,Chico, 95927, 530-342- 8000,80E*580E *205N*5N*120E*99S*Buchach Ex Capitol*[email protected] 1023 North St, Woodland, 95695, 530-666-4706, 5889,80E*505N* 32E*19 miles*becomes L*Stop R* to Ashby SAN FRANCISCO 80E* 113N Ex-Woodland*North St Nord*chicoislamiccenter.com MILL VALLEY ISLAMIC CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO L*woodlandmosque.net CONCORD ISLAMIC CENTER OF MILL VALLEY 400 Crescent Ave, SF, 94110,415-641-9596,101S* YUBA CITY AFGHAN ISLAMIC CENTER 62 Shell Rd, Mill Valley, 94941, 415-383-0617, 280S* 1st Ex Alemany*Straight*L Crescent *Up hill YUBA CITY ISLAMIC CENTER 1545 Monument Blvd 2nd Fl, 94520, *925-825-2533, 101N*Ex Mission R*Van Ness L*Lombart L*Golden MASJID AL TAWHEED 3636 Tierra Buena Rd, Yuba City, 95993, 530-674- *80E*580E*24E*680N*Monument Ex Gate bridge 101N* Blithedale Ex W 1227 Sutter St, SF, 94109, 415-776- 0689, 80E*113 Woodland / Yuba *99N*Eager Rd Ex CONCORD DAR UL ISLAM MASJID L*Straight*Lomita R*Shell R 8088101N*Mission Ex R* Van Ness L*Bush R*Polk L*Tierra Buena L*www.islamiccenterofyubacity.org 4115 Concord Bl.#42, 94519, 925-798- MILPITAS L*Sutter L 5558,80E*580E * 24E* 680N*Treat Ex R*Concord MASJID DAR-US-SALAM MASJID NOOR AL-ISLAM L*www.darulislam.org 90 Dempsey Rd, Milpitas, 95035, 408-719-9010 48 Golden Gate Ave.,SF, 94102, 415-292-9709,*101S ISLAMIC CENTER OF CONTRA COSTA 101S* 237E*R Dempsey Way*L *9th St Ex R*GoldenGate R* www.alsabeel.org 2836 Clayton Rd., 94519, 925-682-4222,80E* Dempsey*www.alhilaal.org MASJID DARUSSALAM 580E*24E*680N*242N*Clayton Ex* MODESTO 20 Jones, 3rd Fl, SF, 94102, 415-863-7997, 101S* DAVIS MODESTO MOSQUE 9th St Ex R*GoldenGate R*Jones R DAVIS ISLAMIC CENTER 1445 Carpenter Rd, Modesto, 95351, 209-576-8149, www.islamsf.org 539 Russell Blvd, Davis, 95616, 530-756-5216, 80E* 80E*580E*205*5N*120E* 99S*Carpenter Ex R MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER THE PROPHET (SAW) 113N-Woodland* Russell Ex* www.davismasjid.org MONTEREY (See Seaside) 850 Divisadero St, SF, 94117, 415-563-9397, 80W* DELANO NEWARK 101N*Mission Ex Straight*Market L* Divisadero R SAID, “CONVEY GLAD SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AL SIDDIQ MOSQUE TAQWA SCHOOL TIDINGS TO THOSE WHO 1130 Kensington St, Delano, 93215, 661-725-2966* 35461 Dumbarton Ct, Newark, 94560, 510-396-0738 Berman Reflection Room,International Terminal, 80E*205N*99S*Cecil St L *Kensington R* *80E*880S*CA84W(Dumbarton Bridge)*Newark Ex Area G, Departures, Next to Bart Station*Hours WALK IN DARKNESS MASJID PORTERVILLE (See Porterville) L*Jarvis R*R Dumbarton Ct.*www.taqwaschool.com 7am-11pm, Pray before you fly*101S*SF Airport ELK GROVE (Sacramento Area) NAPA SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY TOWARDS THE MOSQUES 1600 Holloway Av,Student Center Bldg, ELK GROVE ISLAMIC CENTER AMERICAN MUSLIM SOCIETY (Musala) (FOR PRAYER) WITH 9011 Elk Grove Florin Rd, Elk Grove, 95758, 916- 3149 California Bl.#A, Napa, 94558,707-259-1760, C139,SF,94132 686-2398, 80E*99S*Laguna Ex*L Bond*L Elk Grove 80E* CA37W*CA12W*CA29N*Ex Lincoln R*L SAN JOSE COMPLETE LIGHT ON THE Florin California SOUTH BAY ISLAMIC ASSOCIATION FAIRFIELD NOVATO 325 N 3rd St, San Jose, 95112, 408-947-9389, DAY OF RESURRECTION”. MASJID AL-NOOR ISLAMIC CENTER OF NORTH MARIN COUNTY 101S*Julian Ex R*3rd R* www.sbia.info 902 Union Ave, Fairfield, 94533, 707-426-5768, 80E* 154 Hamilton Dr, Novato, 94949,415-299-1711, EVERGREEN ISLAMIC CENTER Travis Blvd Ex E*Union R 101N* Ignacio Blvd Ex*Nave Dr. L*Ignacio 2486 Ruby Ave. San Jose, 95143, 408-239-6668, FOLSOM R*Hamilton L 101S*Capital Expressway East* L Tully *R Ruby* ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF FOLSOM OAKLAND www.sbia.net/Ruby.html 13405 Folsom Blvd, # 600, 95630,916-353-0956, OAKLAND ISLAMIC CENTER BLOSSOM VALLEY MUSLIM COMM. CENTER 80E* 50E -Lake Tahoe*Folsom Ex L* 515 31st St, Oakland, 94609, 80E*580E*980S*27th 5885 Santa Teresa Blvd. Suite 113, San Jose, 95123, www.folsommasjid.net St Ex L*Telegraph L*31st L 408-362-0903, 101S*Guadalupe Pkwy CA87* CA87S ABBREVIATIONS USED FREMONT MASJID ABUBAKR L*Santa Teresa Blvd Ex R*www.bvmcc.net Ex= Exit L= Left R=Right N=North S=South ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF EAST BAY 948 62nd St, Oakland, 94608, 510-652-7716, *80E*Ex ISLAMIC COMM. OF BAY AREA BOSNIANS E=East W=West St=Street Av=Avenue 33330 Peace Terrace, 94555, 510-429-4732, Emeryville *Market R *62nd L 1445 Koll Cir, #103, San Jose, 95112, 408-441-0540, 80E*880S*Alvarado/Fremont Ex *Alvarado R* Lowry MASJID-AL-ISLAM 101S*Brokaw/1st Ex*Bayshore Fwy*4th St.R*Koll R L*Peace Terrace L* www.iseb.org 8210 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, 94605,*510-638- SAN MARTIN (Gilroy Area) This is the 2008 edition of prayer ISLAMIC CENTER OF FREMONT 9541, 80E*580E*Edward Ave Ex*MacArthur L* 82nd SOUTH VALLEY ISLAMIC CENTER locations for California, which was 4039 Irvington Ave, Fremont, 94538, 510-661-0352, Ave L 14770 Columbet Ave., San Martin, 95037, 408-535- 0112, 101S* Ex Tennant E*R Murphy*L Maple* R started in 1991. This list is designed 80E*880S*Stevenson Blvd Ex L*Blacow R*Fremont L MASJID AL-SALAM with driving directions to help Muslims *Irvington L*www.icf-sfba.org 1005 7th. St., Oakland, 94607, 80E*880S*Union St. Columbet*www.svic.org IBRAHIM KHALILULLAH ISLAMIC CENTER Ex toward Broadway/Alameda*7th St R SAN MATEO find prayer locations easily. We hope 43140 Osgood Rd, Fremont, 94539, 510-651-0122, MASJIDUL WARITHEEN AL-HAQ MOSQUE 228 N Ellsworth St, San Mateo, that this assists our fellow Muslims in 80E*880S*Automall E Ex * Osgood L 1652 47th Ave, Oakland, 94601, 510-436-7755, 80E* 94401, 650-579-0429, 101S*Poplar Ex E*Ellsworth L maintaining their prayers and FRESNO 580E*High St Ex*Foothill L*47th Ave R SAN RAMON responsibilities. FRESNO MOSQUE PALO ALTO SAN RAMON VALLEY ISLAMIC CTR 2232 B Camino Ramon, San Ramon, 94583, 925- 2111 East Shaw Ave, Fresno, 93710, 559-222-6686, STANFORD UNIV INTERNATIONAL CTR Now you can also go to our website at *80E*580E*205*5N*120 E*99S*Shaw Ex R* 590 Old Union Club House,#19, 94305, 101 S* 866-7088, 80E*580E*680N* Crow Cyn Ex R*Camino www.masjidfresno.org Embarcadero W Ex*El Camino L*Campus R*to Ramon R*Commerce Park Bldgs R* www.srvic.org www.islamicbulletin.org, click on “Enter BADR COMMUNITY CENTER Santa Teresa L*590 Bldg*http://issul.stanford.edu SANTA CLARA Here”, click on mosque, and choose 4222 W. Alamos # 102, Fresno, 93722, 559-274- PETALUMA MCA the mosque that you would like to visit. 0906, 80E*580E*205*5N*120 E-Manteca *99S*Shaw ISLAMIC CENTER OF PETALUMA 3003 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, 95054, 408-970-0647, This online version allows you to type W Ex R*R N El Capitan*L W Alamos*http:// 222 Bassett St, 94952, 707-773-1576, 408-980-1161 (School)*101S*San Tomas Ex R*Stay L (Careful)1st light-Scott L* www.mca-sfba.org in your address and it will prepare bccfresno.net/ *101N*Petaluma Bl. S*L Western*L Liberty *R driving directions to the mosque. MASJID AL-AQABA Bassett*www.islamiccenterofpetaluma.org 1468 Fresno St., Fresno, 93706, 559-495-1606,*80E PITTSBURG MASJID AN-NOOR Please take a few moments to look *580E*205*5N*120E*99S* Ex 132B Fresno St L PITTSBURG ISLAMIC CENTER 1755 Catherine St, Santa Clara, 95050, 408-246- over this list. If you know of any GILROY (See San Martin) 300 E.10th St., Pittsburg, 94565, 925-439-2323, 9822, changes or additions, please notify us. HANFORD *80E* 580E*24E*HWY4*Railroad Ex L*10th R 101S*San Tomas Express Ex R*Stay L (Careful)*Scott L*Pass El Camino*Catherine L* MASJID HANFORD PLEASANTON The Islamic Bulletin 308 S 10th Ave, Hanford, 93230, 559-583-1448, 80E* ISLAMIC CENTER OF PLEASANTON-DUBLIN www.mca-sfba.org 580E*5S*L CA198 Ex 334*Ex W 3rd St.*L S 10th Ave 1279 Quarry Ln #B, Pleasanton, 94566,925-485-1786 *SANTA CRUZ (See Capitola & Castroville) P.O. Box 410186 HAYWARD *80E*580E*Santa Rita Ex R* L Valley* R Quarry SANTA ROSA SF, CA 94141-0186 ALAMEDA MUSLIM LEAGUE PORTERVILLE (Delano Area) ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF SANTA ROSA Web: www.islamicbulletin.org 731 A St, Hayward, 94541, 510-728-5102, 80E MASJID PORTERVILLE 545 Mendocino Ave. Santa Rosa, 95401,707-525- Email: [email protected] toward Ex 4B 880S*Ex A St toward Downtown*L A 289 N. 3rd St, Porterville, 93257, 559-783- 1144 101N*College Ex R* Mendocino R* 2 Blocks 2483*80E* 205N*99S*190E*Main Ex R*Cleveland The Islamic BulletinR*3rd L* Volume X No. 23 Page 13 The Prophet (SAW) said, “Salat (Prayer) is the first act that a person will be accountable for.”

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLETA (Santa Barbara Area) MONROVIA Directions Start From Highway 5 MUSLIM COMM. CENTER OF GREATOR SAN DIEGO THE ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF SANTA BARBARA MASJID QURTUBA 12788 Rancho Penasquitos Blvd. San Diego, 92129, 158 Aero Camino Ave, Ste D, Goleta, 93117, 805- 1121 Huntington Dr, Monrovia, 91016, 626-305- 858-484-0074, 5S*CA-56 Ex 33*L Carmel Vly Rd*Ex SOUTH SOUTH SOUTH SOUTH SOUTH 968 9940, 101S*Los Carneros Rd Ex R*Hollister 0077, 5S*210W*Buena Vista Ex*Central L* Buena 8 Rancho Penasquitos Blvd R* www.gsdmcc.org 5 5 5 5 5 L*Aero Camino L* www.islamsb.org Vista R*Huntington L MASJID AL-TAQWA GRANADA HILLS MORENO VALLEY 2575 Imperial Ave, San Diego, 92102, 619-239-6738, ALTADENA ISLAMIC CENTER NORTHRIDGE ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER MASJID TAQWA 5S*805S*Imperial Ave Ex 11439 Encino Ave, Granada Hills, 91344, 818-360- 24436 Webster St.,Moreno Valley, CA 92557, 951- MASJID HAMZA 2181 N. Lake Ave, Altadena, 91001, 626-398 3500, 5S*Ex 161B San Fernardo Rd R* R Balboa 247-8581, 5S*210E*I10E*I15S*60E*Ex Heacock*L 8392, 5S* 210E Pasadena*Ex N Arroyo Bl R*L W 9520 Padgett St #106, 92126, 619-571-2988, 5S*I- Blvd *R Rinaldi *L Encino Ave Sunnymead*R Indian* R Webster 805S*La Jolla Dr Ex* Miramar rd R*L Padgett Washington*L Lake Ave* [email protected] HAWTHORNE NEWHALL (Santa Clarita Area) ANAHEIM MASJID-AL-ANSAR THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF HAWTHORNE MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTER 4014 Winona Ave., San Diego, 92105, 619-282-4407, MASJID AL-ANSAR 12209 S Hawthorne Way, Hawthorne,90250,310- 22607 6th St., 91321, 661-259-9008, 5S*Ex 1717 S. Brookhurst St., Anaheim 92801,714-535- 5S*I-805S*I-8E*CA-15S*Ex University Av R *L 973-8000, 5S*405S*El Segundo Ex*So La Cienega CA126*L Magic Mountain Pwy*R SanFernando*R Winona, 1100, 5S*Brookhurst Ex R*www.masjidansar.com R*W120th R*Hawthorne R*www.ichla.org 6th MASJID OMAR AL-FAROOQ AFGHAN COMMUNITY ISLAMIC CENTER HEMET NEWBURY PARK 3333 Sandrock Rd, 92123,858-560-9191,5S* 1220 N. State College Blv,Anaheim,92806,714- ISLAMIC CENTER OF HEMET ISLAMIC CENTER OF CONEJO VALLEY 533-6271,5S*91E*Ex N.State College R* I805S*Ex Balboa*CA 274E*R Convoy*L Aero*R 44212 Florida, Hemet, 92544,951-312-0372,5S* 2700 Borchard Rd, Newbury Park, 91320, 805-498- Sandrock www.masjidomar.com Pomona Fwy Ex134B*CA60E*Gilman Spring Rd Ex 2106, 101S*Wendy Ex R*Lavery L* www.iccv.org AFGHAN ISLAMIC CENTER MASJID OMAR BIN KHATTAB R*CA79S N Sanderson R*Ramona Expy L*Florida NORTH HOLLYWOOD 3487 Ocean View Dr, 92113, 619-520-8023, 546 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, 92804,714-288- L ISLAMIC CENTER OF NORTHRIDGE 9655, 5S*Harbor Blvd Ex 110A*R S Harbor*L W 5S*805S*CA 15S*EX 14 to CA-94* W/M L King JR INGLEWOOD 8424 Tampa Ave, Northridge, 91324, 818-360- FWY* Ocean View L Katella JAMAT MASJID-UL-ISLAM 3500, 5S*405S Santa Monica*Ex Roscoe R*R ARTESIA LOGAN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTER 820 Java Ave, Inglewood, 90301,310-419-9177,or Tampa 5077 Logan Av. 92113, 619-264-4183, 5S*805S*Ex MADINA ISLAMIC CNTR (Quality Inn Motel) 310-672-0773, 5S*405S Santa Monica*Ex 46 (Lax NORTHRIDGE 16905 S. Pioneer Blvd,90701,562-676-7351*5S* Palm Av L*continue 47th *L Logan Airport)*R S La Cienega*R W Arbor Vitae*L Java ISLAMIC CENTER OF NORTHRIDGE MUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIETY 405S*605N*E SR91*Ex Pioneer Bl*L 168th St * IRVINE 8424 Tampa Ave, 91324, 818-772-0906, 5S*405S www.madinaislamiccenter.org 11347 Zapata Ave,San Diego, 92126, 858-603-9221, ISLAMIC CENTER OF IRVINE Santa Monica*Ex Roscoe R*R Tampa*goicn.com 5S*805S*Ex Sorrento Vly rd L*Continue Mira Mesa AZUSA 2 Truman Irvine, 92620,949-786-4264,5S*Walnut OXNARD AL-FATIHA ISLAMIC CENTER Blv*Camino Ruiz L*R Zapata* Ex R*Jeffrey R*L Roosevelt*L Truman* ISLAMIC CENTER OF OXNARD www.massandiego.org 210 N Citrus Ave, Azusa, 91702, 626-815-8679,5S* www.icoi.net 525 S. A St, Oxnard, 93030, 805-486-8886,101S*R 210E*Ex N Citrus Av L*[email protected] See also: Chula Vista, El Cajon, El Centro & LA MIRADA CA 126W*CA118 Ex5 Saticoy R to S Wells*Los Vista BAKERSFIELD MUSLIM COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. Angeles *R R E Vineyard*L N Oxnard*R W 5th St*L ALFAROOQ ISLAMIC CENTER SAN GABRIEL 15077 Imperial Hwy, 90638, 562-902-5999*5S * South A * MASJID GIBRAEL 615 Kentucky St., Bakersfield,93305,661-324- Rosecrans Ave Ex 120*L Valley View *R Imperial * PALMDALE 1380, 5S*CA46*99S*178E*Union Ave R* 1301 E Las Tunas Drive, San Gabriel, 91776, 626- www.muslimcsi.org MASJID OF ANTELOPE VALLEY 285-2573, 101S*10E*Rosemead Ex L*Las Tunas L* Monterey R*Kern L*Kentucky L*www.iscob.org LAKEWOOD 1125 E. Palmdale Bl.,Palmdale, 93550,661-224- ISLAMIC CNTR OF SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY www.masjidgibrael.org BAIT UL MUKARRAM 1111, 5S*CA-138 Palmdale*CA-14S/CA-138E*Ex MASJID MULTAQA 701 Ming Av, Bakersfield,93307,661-836-9055, 12213 Centralia Rd., 90715, 562-865-9242 W Palmdale Blvd L*www.geocities.com/aiiav 5S* CA 46 Ex L*99S*58E*H St Ex*R S Chester*L 311 Mission Dr., San Gabriel, CA 91776, 5S*I-10E *5S*210E*605S*DelAmo Ex L*R Pioneer* L PALM SPRINGS ( See Coachella) San Bernardino*Ex S Garfield 23B*R E Mission Ming*www.iscob.org Centralia PANORAMA CITY CERRITOS Rd*L W Santa Anita*L S Mission Dr* LANCASTER IMAM BUKHARY MASJID SAN LUIS OBISPO AL-ILM EDUCATION ACADEMY ISLAMIC CENTER OF NORTH VALLEY 8741 Van Nuys Blvd,#209, Panorama City, 91402, 19446 Norwalk Blvd, 90703, 562-305-3611, ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF THE CENTRAL COAST 42554 4th St East, Lancaster, 93535, 661-726- 818-894-3025*5S*405N*Ex Nordhoff L*R.Van Nuys 679 Santa Rosa St, San Luis Obispo, 93401, 805- 5S*605S*Del Almo Blv. Ex 5A L*Norwalk L*al- 4749, 5S*CA138E Lancaster*Ex41 W L Ave. L*R PERRIS ilmei.org 781-9403, 101S*Santa Rosa St Ex* 4th St ISLAMIC CENTER OF PERRIS www.csc.calpoly.edu/~khabib/ICCC.html CHULA VISTA (San Diego Area) LEMON GROVE (San Diego Area) 3895 N. Perris Blvd. CA 92571, 951-443-3929,5S* MASJID MOMINEEN SANTA ANA MASJID UTHMAN Pomona Fwy Ex134B*CA60E*RI-215 S* San MASJID SANTA ANA 1280 3rd Ave, Chula Vista, 91911, 619-571- 7126 Westview Pl, Lemon Grove, 91945, 619-667- Diego/Eastridge Ave/Eucalyptus Ave*L Cajalco 2988,5S* Bay Blvd Ex 7A Merge Bay Blvd*R L St*R 1001 E Grant St, # B2, Santa Ana, 92701, 714-285- 8700, 5S*I-805S L*Ex CA-94E*Ex 6 Broadway*R Expwy*Ex Ramona Expwy*R N Perris Blvd 1494, 714-200-4701,5S*Ex 104A to E 1st St L*L S 3rd Ave Massachusetts*R Westview Pl * POMONA COACHELLA (Palm Springs Area) Grand Av*E McFadden R*Minnie R*Grant L LOMITA ISLAMIC CENTER OF CLAREMONT SANTA CLARITA (See Newhall) ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF COACHELLA VALLEY ISLAMIC CENTER OF SOUTH BAY 3641 N Garey Ave, Pomona, 91767, 909-593-1865, 84650 Ave. 49, 92236,760-398-7609, 5S*I-10E/San SAUGUS (See Valencia) 25816 Walnut St, Lomita, 90717, 310-534 1363, 105E*605N*10E*Garey Ex L*www.iccs.com ISL CTR OF SANTA CLARITA VALLEY Bernardino*CA-86-Spur S El Centro*R Dillon 5S*405S*110S*Pacific Coast Hwy Ex*Walnut L* MASJID AL SABEREEN Rd*R Ave. 48*L Grapefruit*R 49 * 28177 Avenue Crocker, Valencia, 91355, 661-295- www.masjidalnoor.org 805 S Garey Ave, Pomona, 91766, 909-865-7833, 5626, 5S*Ex 171*L Old Rd* L Rye Canyon Rd*L Av www.cvmosque.com LOMPOC 5S*210E*71S*W Mission Blvd L*S Garey Ave R CORONA Crocker ISLAMIC CENTER OF LOMPOC POWAY SIMI VALLEY ISLAMIC CENTER OF CORONA AND 1015 North A St, 93436, 101S*E Clark R*L CA- ISLAMIC CENTER OF NORTH COUNTY NORCA 465 Santana Way, Corona, 92881, 951- ISLAMIC CENTER OF SIMI VALLEY 135S*R Harris Grade *R CA-1 N/N H St*L E 13495 Poway Rd.,Poway, CA 92064, , 858-513- 1756 Erringer Rd. #110, Simi Valley, 93065,818-727- 736-8155, 5S*605S*91E* 15S*Ex Magnolia R*2 Central*R N St* www.islaminlompoc.org 2733, 5S*Camino Del Norte Ex*Becomes Twin miles* L Santana Way* www.coronamuslims.com 7126, 5S*405S*CA118*Ex Erringer L LONG BEACH Peaks* Community Rd R*Poway Rd L*http:// TEMECULA COSTA MESA MASJID AL-SHAREEF www.icnc.ws ISLAMIC EDUCATION CENTER OF IRVINE ISLAMIC CENTER OF TEMECULA 2104 Orange Ave, 90806, 562-591-5320, RANCHO CUCAMONGA 42188 Rio Nedo, #A, Temecula, 92590, 951-296- 3194 B Airport Loop Dr, Costa Mesa 92626, 714- 405S*Orange Ave Ex R* ISLAMIC CENTER OF THE INLAND EMPIRE 432-0060, 5S*405S*Bristol Ex R*Paularino L*Red 6601, 5S*91S*15S*Hwy 79 Indio Ex*Immed ISLAMIC CENTER OF LONG BEACH 9212 Baseline Rd, Rancho Cucamonga, 91701, R*Becomes Front St*Churchill*RV Park* Hill L*Airport Loop R* www.iecoc.org 1471 Long Beach Blvd, 90813,562-218-6776*5S* 909-944-1836, 105E*605N* 10E*60E*I605N CULVER CITY www.icotv.org I710S Long Beach*R Pacific Coast Hwy CA *I210E*E Baseline Ex* TORRANCE KING FAHAD MOSQUE 1S*Merge W Pacific Coast Hwy*R Long Beach * www.islamiccenterofinlandempire.org 10980 Washington Blvd, Culver City, 90232, 310- TORRANCE ISLAMIC CENTER www.longbeachislamiccenter.com REDLANDS 18093 Prairie Av #F,Torrance, 90504,310-542- 202-0432, 5S*405S*Venice Blvd Ex*Sawtelle Blvd LOS ANGELES ISLAMIC CENTER OF REDLANDS L*Washington Pl L*W WA Blvd L* 1714, 5S*I405S*Redondo Beach L*R Praire*Jumha THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF SOUTHERN CA 11210 Alabama St. Redlands, 92373, 909-793-4443, @ 1744 West Carson St. Torrance* CYPRESS 434 S. Vermont Ave, 90020,213-382- 5S*I-10 E San Bernardino exit to San Bernardino*Ex CYPRESS ISLAMIC CENTER www.torranceislamic.org 9200,101S*Vermont Ex L* R* www.islamctr.org Alabama R*www.islamicsocietyofcal.com MOMIN LODGE 5900 Ball Rd, Cypress, 90630, 714-220-1786, MASJID OMAR IBN AL-KHATTAB RESEDA 5S* 91E *Valley View Ex*S Valley View*R Ball Rd 1918 W Artesia Bl., Torrance, 90504,310-532- 1025 Exposition Bl.,90007,323-733-9938,101S* ISLAMIC CENTER OF RESEDA 7755, 5S* 405S*Ex 91E R*S.Western L*W.Artesia R Vermont Ex S*Exposition 18206 Victory Blvd, Reseda, 91335, 818-996-9116, DOWNEY L * R*www.omarfoundation.org 5S*405S*Ex Victory R UPLAND ISLAMIC CENTER OF MIDCITY MASJID BILAL RIALTO 12428 S.Benedict Av.#242, 90242, 562-940-1995, AL NUR ISLAMIC CENTER 4016 South Central Ave, 90011, 323-233-7274, ISLAMIC CENTER OF RIALTO 525 N. Central Ave # 2, Upland, 91786, 909-985- 5S*605S* Imperial Hwy Ex*PassWoodRuff*S 5S*10E*110 S*M.Luther King Ex L*Central S R 755 E Foothill Blvd, #C, Rialto, 92376, 909-875- Benedict R 8867,5S*210E Pasadena*R N Central*alnuric.org MASJID AL SALAAM 7456, 5S*210E*10E*Cedar Ave Ex*Bloomington TUSTIN EL CAJON ( San Diego Area) 2900 W Florence Ave, LA, 90043, 323-758-4033, Ave*So Riverside Ave*E Foothill R MASJID MADINA AL-MUNARA MASJID DARUL FALAH 5S*405S*Florence Ex Straight*Florence L* RIVERSIDE 14712 Bentley Cir,Tustin,92780,714-838-2325,5S* 511 S. Magnolia Ave, El Cajon 92020, 619-401- www.masjidassalaam.org ISLAMIC CENTER OF RIVERSIDE 2692, 5S*8E*El Cajon Blvd Ex* R Washington*L Ex Tustin R*L Walnut*R Bentley MASJID BILAL IBN RABAH 1038 W Linden St, Riverside, 92507, 951-684- *www.darulfalah.com Magnolia 5450 S Crenshaw Ave, 90043, 323-291- 5466, 5S*210E*10E*215S*60E*Blaine L*Iowa R* EL CENTRO (San Diego Area) VALENCIA 0105,*101S*110S*Century Ex R*Crenshaw L Linden L ISL CTR OF SANTA CLARITA VALLEY IMPERIAL VALLEY ISLAMIC CENTER MASJID TAWHID ROWLAND HEIGHTS 1195 Park Av, 92243, 760-370-5808, 5S*I-10E Ex 28177 Avenue Crocker , Valencia, 91355, 661-295- 852 Santee St., LA, 90014*5S*CA170S* 101S*110S ISLAMIC CENTER OF SAN GABRIEL VALLEY 5626, 6 Ex 171 Rye Canyon Rd*L San Bernardino*CA-86S-Spur L*R S Western *R * Ex 3B San Pedro*W 8th St*Ex 22B to 9th St*L 19164 E Walnut Dr N, 91748, 626-964-3596, 5S*60 CA86*L Adams * R N 12th *L Park* VICTORVILLE Santee Ex*Nogales L*Walnut R*www.icsgv.com MASJID VICTORVILLE www.ivicweb.com DAR AL QURAN SAN BERNARDINO FONTANA 16793 Merrill St., 92395, 760-245-6656, 5S*Ex 253 10887 Venice Blvd., 2nd Floor, LA, 90034, 310-210- MAKKI-MASJID L*R S Real*L CA-58E*R US395*L Air Expy Bl*R AR-RAHMAN ISLAMIC CENTER 6081, 5S*405S Santa Monica I10*Ex to LA*I-10 E/ 1959 Macy St, San Bernardino, CA 92411,951-285- 7641 Sierra Av. Fontana, 92336, 909-355-4900, National Trails Hwy to D st* R 7th St*L S Mojave Rosa Parks Fwy*Ex 4 National Bl R*R Overland 0052,*5S*210E*L Ex Pasadena*I-15 Ex to Barstow Dr*L Merrill 5S*210E Pasadena*Ex Sierra Ave R* MASJID IBADALLAH *Sierra Av Ex R*L Riverside*L Highland*R Macy www.arrahmanislamiccenter.org VISTA (San Diego Area) 2310 W Jefferson, LA, 90018, 323-734-9940 DAR AL-ULOOM AL-ISLAMIYAH MASJID AL ITIHAD FOUNTAIN VALLEY 5S*405S*10E*Arlington Av Ex R*W Jefferson R* 2012 Mallory St, San Bernardino, 92407,909-880- MASJID AL- NOOR 925 Anza Ave, Vista, 92084, 760-945-9544, 5S*76E www.ibaadillah.org 0201,*5S*210E*to Highland *L N State St*L Ex*Foussat Rd R*Mission L*Keep L 1.6m*Santa 16551 Brookhurst St, Fountain Valley, 92708, 714- MASJID AL MUMIN Mallory* 839-1661,* 5 S*I-405S Santa Monica*Ex 15B Fe N*Bobier Dr E L*Anza Rd R*www.imna.net 1635 S St Andrews Pl, LA 90019, 323-296- SANTA BARBARA (See Goleta) WALNUT Magnolia L*Heil R*Brookhurst R 5961,101S* Ex6 Melrose R*L Western*R Venice*L S SAN DIEGO FULLERTON ISLAMIC EDUCATION CENTER St Andrews AL-RIBAT MASJID 659 Brea Canyon Rd, #2, Walnut, 91789, 909-594- MASJID FULLERTON MASJID ABU BAKR AS SADDIQ 7173 Saranac St #204, San Diego, 92115, 619- 515 W. Valencia Dr, Suite H, 1310, 5S*60E*L Golden Springs Dr Ex 23*L Banyon 3611 Crenshaw Av., 90016, 323-732-4249*101S* 589-6800, 5S* 805S*8E*70th Ex W*Saranac L* Rdrea C* www.ahmadsakr.com Fullerton,92832,714-525-0135, *5S*CA-91E Ex 405S*I10E/Rosa Parks Fwy*Ex 9 Crenshaw R www.alrribat.org #114B Riverside*Ex Euclid L*R W Valencia Dr* MASJID AL-FURQAN MASJID AL RASUL ISL CTR OF SAN DIEGO / ABU BAKR MASJID 642 Brea Canyon Rd., CA 91789, 909-594-4656, [email protected] 11211 S Central Ave., LA, 90059, 323-567-7114 7050 Eckstrom Ave, San Diego, 92111, 858-278- GARDEN GROVE 5S*60E*L Golden Springs Dr Ex 23*L Brea Cyn Rd 5S*405S*I-105E Ex Norwalk*Ex S Central Av Ex 9 5240, 5S*805S*Balboa Ex W*Eckstrom WEST COVINA ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF ORANGE COUNTY L L*www.icsd.org 1 Al Rahmann Plaza, Garden Grove, 92844, 714- ISLAMIC LEARNING CENTER MISSION VIEJO MASJID AL-NUR 1912 W. Merced Ave. , 91790, 626-813-2690, 531-1722, 5S*405S*CA22E*Brookhurst Ex R*R ORANGE COUNTY ISLAMIC FOUNDATION 3872 50th St, San Diego, 92105, 619-282-0037,619- 13th St* www.isocmasjid.com *5S*I 210E*605S*I-10E San Bernardino*Ex Puente 23581 Madero Dr,92691,949-595-0480, 5S*Alicia 640-0619, 5S*805S*University Ex R*50th St R R* L at fork*L Dalewood St*R W Merced* Pkwy Ex*Via Linda L*Madero L*www.ocif.org www.hejrat.info The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 14 In the Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful Islamic Last Will and Testament OF ______

RESIDING AT ______

COUNTY______DATE OF BIRTH ______TEL. #______TODAY’S DATE______

ARTICLE I: PREAMBLE

The Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) ordered Muslims to have their Last Will and Testament drawn up: Abdullah bin ‘Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah (Pbuh) said, “It is not permissible for any Muslim who has something to Will to stay for two nights without having his Will and Testament written and kept ready with him” (Sahih Al-Bukhari).

While being in full mental capacity and good health, I, ______, a Muslim, do hereby declare, request, and certify this, my Last Will and Testament. I also do hereby declare that this document revokes any and all former Wills and codicils that I have made previously.

All praise to Allah (SWT), The Creator of the heavens and the earth and all within. I believe in Him and I put my trust entirely in Him. I beg for His Help and His Forgiveness. I seek refuge in Allah (SWT) from the Shaitan (Satan) and the evils of the world and the evils of my deeds. I ask Him to Guide me; those whom Allah (SWT) Guides no one can mislead, and those whom Allah (SWT) leaves to stray, no one can guide. I testify that I believe that The Hour will come for certain, and that Allah will resurrect all those who are in the graves. I testify that there is no deity except Allah, He is One and has no partners, and I testify that Mohammed is Allah’s servant and last Messenger (Peace and Blessings of Allah be on him).

I request of all of my immediate relatives and closest friends, and any others involved in the procedures surrounding my death and burial, whether they be Muslims or non-Muslims, to honor my human and Constitutional right and choice to be a Muslim. I ask them to also honor the spirit as well as letter of this document and to not obstruct or change it in any way. Let them see to it that I am buried as a Muslim, and my property divided and disperse as I ordered, according to the Sunni Muslim Islamic Law (hereafter referred to Shariah). Under no circumstances does anyone have the authority to change the contents of this Will.

I request of all of my immediate relatives and closest friends, for the sake of Allah and out of fear of Him, to settle their disputes and correct their relationships among themselves according to the following orders of Allah in The Quran: “So fear Allah and amend that which is between you and obey Allah and His Messenger if you should be believers” (Surah al-Anfal 8: 1).

I request of all of my immediate relatives and closest friends what the prophets Ibrahim and Ya’cob (Peace be upon them) directed their sons: “O my sons, indeed Allah has chosen for you this religion, so do not die except while you are Muslims.” (Surat-ul-Baqarah, 2:132).

I request of all of my immediate relatives and closest friends, when I am on the brink of death, that they insist that I say the Shahadah: “La ilaha ill-Allah, Muhammadun Rasulullah (There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of God) “ This is in observance of the Prophet’s (Pbuh) saying: “Anyone whose last words were ‘La ilaha ill-Allah (There is no God but Allah) will enter Paradise”. ( Ahmad, Abu Dawud, and al-Hakim - Sahih).

I insist that no one wail or slap their cheeks because of my death, as the Prophet (Pbuh) has prohibited these acts. After you have buried me, the first thing you must do is to clear me of my debts (if there are any), as the believer’s soul is held back by his liabilities.

Distribution of Inheritance According to the Quran

Allah (SWT) says in the Quran in Sura (verse) An-Nisaa: 7-14

7. For men is a share of what parents and close relatives leave, and for women is a share of what the parents and close relatives leave, be it little or much – an obligatory share.

8. And when [other] relatives and orphans and the needy are present at the [time of] division, then provide for them [something] out of it [ i.e., the estate] and speak to them words of appropriate kindness.

9. And let those [executors and guardians] fear [injustice] as if they [themselves] had left weak offspring behind and feared for them. So let them fear Allah and speak words of appropriate kindness.

10. Indeed, those who devour the property of orphans unjustly are only consuming into their bellies fire. And they will be burned in a Blaze [i.e. Hellfire].

11. Allah instructs you concerning your children [i.e. their portions of inheritance]: for the male, what is equal to the share of two females. But if there are [only] daughters, two or more, for them is two thirds of one’s estate. (Literally, “that which is left.”). And if there is only one, for her is half. And for one’s parents, to each one of them is a sixth of his estate if he left children. But if he had no children, and the parents [alone] inherit for him, then for his mother is one third. And if he had brothers [and/or sisters], for his mother is a sixth, (Although the siblings themselves do not inherit in this case.) after any bequest he [may have] made or debt. Your parents or your children – you know not which of them, are nearest to you in benefit. [These shares are] an obligation [imposed] by Allah. Indeed, Allah is ever Knowing and Wise.

12. And for you is half of what your wives leave if they have no child. But if they have a child, for you is one fourth of what they leave, after any bequest you [may have] made or debt. And if a man or woman leaves neither ascendants nor descendants but has a brother or a sister, then for each one is a sixth. But if they are more than two, they share a third, (these shares are divided equally between males and females), after any bequest which was made or debt, as long as there is no detriment [caused]. (This is a condition for any bequest. If it has been violated by the deceased, his bequest is not to be honored, or it may be adjusted by the executor). [This is] an ordinance from Allah, and Allah is knowing and Forebearing.

13. These are the limits of Allah, and whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger will be admitted by Him to gardens [in Paradise] under which rivers flow, abiding eternally therein; and that is the great attainment.

14. And whosoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger, and transgresses His limits - He will put him into the Fire to abide eternally therein, and he will have a humiliating punishment. ARTICLE II: MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY

A.I am married to ______and all references in this Will to my husband/wife (s) are references to this person. ______

B. I am the father/mother of the following children whose names and dates of birth are: 1. ______

2.______3. ______

4. ______5. ______

6. ______7. ______

ARTICLE III: EXECUTOR AND BENEFICIARY

A. I hereby entrust all my estate: cash, bank accounts, real property, shares in any business, and any other property not mentioned in this Will, to the person named below, who shall act as my executor to serve without bond, to distribute it according to Shariah. I ordain that the executor of this Will be a Muslim.

1. My husband/wife ______, or, if he/she fails to survive me by 45 days, 2. ______, or, if fails to survive me by 45 days,

3. ______, or, if fails to survive me by 45 days, 4. ______, or, if fails to survive me by 45 days,

B. The Imam of the local Sunni Muslim community.

C. I direct that the executor take all actions legally permissible to have the probate of my estate done as simply and as expeditiently as possible.

D. I give my executor power to sell my property, real, personal or mixed, without a court order and without bond.

E. I give my executor power to settle any claim for or against my estate.

ARTICLE IV: BURIAL ARRANGEMENTS

1. I ordain that my body be prepared for burial in keeping with the Sunni Muslim Law (Shariah).

2. Under no circumstances shall my body be voluntarily turned over for an autopsy, or embalming, or organ donation.

3. My body must be prepared for burial according to the Shariah

4. Once the body is prepared for burial there is to be no viewing of my remains.

5. Absolutely no non-Islamic religious service or observance shall be conducted upon my death, or on my body, or at the grave site. No pictures, stars and crescents, decorations, crosses, flags, flowers, plants, signs, symbols, or music be involved at any stage of my burial.

6. My body may not be transported over any unreasonable distance from the locality of my death unless necessitated by the circumstances or consensus of my Muslim family members.

7. My grave must be dug in complete accordance with the Shariah practice. It should face in the direction of the Qiblah (Ka’aba in Makkah, Saudi Arabia).

8. My body must be buried without casket or any other encasement that separates the shroud from the surrounding soil.

9. My grave must be covered with dirt only. The marking, if necessary, should be a simple rock. There should be no inscriptions or symbols on it.

10. My burial must take place as soon as possible, preferable before sunset on the day of my death or the following day. Under no circumstances should the burial be unduly delayed.

11. In the event that the local laws require casket-encasement, I command that such encasement be of the simplest, most modest, and least expensive type possible, and I furthermore command that the encasement be left open during burial and filled with dirt unless prohibited by law.

12. No one is permitted to cry out, moan or wail. I demand that such a person leave the burial site. Only what comes from the eye is acceptable (tears). Muslims should say a duaa (supplication) for me and that there be a moment of silence when they pray that my grave is made spacious and comfortable.

ARTICLE V: CUSTODY OF MINOR CHILDREN AND GUARDIAN

If, at my death, any of my children are minors, I recommend that my husband/wife ______be appointed guardian of my minor children, provided he/she is a Muslim. If he/she is unable or unwilling to serve as personal guardian, I recommend that ______be appointed guardian of my minor children. If he/she is unable or unwilling to serve as personal guardian, I recommend that ______be appointed guardian of my minor children. If he/she is unable or unwilling to serve as personal guardian, I recommend that ______be appointed guardian of my minor children. In all cases, I urge that all my minor children be raised to be practicing Sunni Muslims and not in any way be indoctrinated into any other faith, religion, or sect of Islam. I direct that no bond be required of any personal guardian. Any property or other inheritance that this Will gives to any of my minor children shall be administered by their guardian in their best interest. ARTICLE VI: DEBTS AND EXPENSES

I direct my executor:

A. To return to the rightful owners all trust and property that are in my care at the time of my death.

B. To first apply the assets of my estate to the payment of all my legal debts, including such expenses incurred by my last illness and burial as well as expenses of the administration of my estate.

C. To pay any outstanding “obligation due to Allah (Huquq Allah) “ which are binding on me including unpaid zakat, kaffaraat of unperformed pilgrimage (Hajj), etc.

ARTICLE VII: BEQUESTS

I direct my executor to:

Pay the following amount from the remainder of my estate after paying all the expenses mentioned above, to the person/s or organization/s named below. The total must not exceed 33 percent (one third) of the remainder of my estate.

1. ______…...... % of the total remainder 2. ______…...... % of the total remainder

3. ______…...… % of the total remainder 4. ______…....… % of the total remainder

5. ______...…… % of the total remainder TOTAL BEQUESTS (must not be more than 33%) …...... % of the total remainder

ARTICLE VIII: DISTRIBUTION OF THE REMAINDER OF MY ESTATE

1. Distribute the residue and remainder of my estate strictly in accordance with the tenets of Sunni Muslim law of inheritance.

2. Ensure that no part of the remainder of my estate shall be inherited by any non-Muslim, no matter how he/she is related to me.

3. Ensure that, should I die as a result of murder, no part of the remainder of my estate shall be inherited by my adjured murderer responsible for direct unlawful killing (actionable homicide) , no matterr how he/she is related to me

4. Ensure that no part of the remainder of my estate shall be inherited by a person whose claimed relationship to me, ascending or descending, is the result of a non-Islamic or unlawful marriage, or through adoption, except if this relationship to me is through his/her mother who is biologically (through blood) related to me or if he/she is specifically mentioned in bequests above.

5. Regarding a fetus conceived before my death, whose relationship to me qualifies it to be an heir according to this article, if it is born alive within the limit of time specified by Shariah. The executor may delay the distribution of the residue and remainder of my estate after the execution of Articles I to VII, until the birth of the fetus. If he/she chooses to distribute the estate prior to the birth of the fetus then he must withhold a portion of the estate equal to the share of the fetus for distribution until after the birth of the fetus.

6. In case of any difficulty in distributing my estate according to this Will, the matter should be referred to a Muslim knowledgeable in Islamic Inheritance Law for advice and guidance.

7. The residue and remainder of my estate after the execution of Articles I to VII and Article VIII sections 1 to 6 above be donated to the following person/s or organization/s for the establishment of Islamic communities and Masajid.

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8. Any portion of my estate disclaimed or refused to be received by any of the legatees names or referred to in this document be donated to the following person/s or organization/s for the establishment of Islamic communities and Masajid. ______

ARTICLE IX: SEPARABILITY

I direct that no part of this Will be invalidated by a court unless competent in Shariah. If any part of this will is determined invalid by a court the other parts shall remain valid and enforceable.

I insist that no one practice innovations regarding the three-day condolence period after my death, such as bringing in someone to recite excerpts from the Quran or to preparing food for guests. If you do any such innovations, I am free from that guilt and deviation, having herein charged you against it.

I declare that I forgive everyone who has backbitten me or erroneously taken anything from me. I beg of all those who knew me that they please forgive me for whatever I may have erroneously taken from them or said against them.

I request that if you differ in anything among yourselves you refer the decision to Allah and His Messenger (Pbuh), for Allah (SWT) said: “And know, by your Lord, they will not believe until they make you, [O Mohammed], judge in what they dispute among themselves and then find no discomfort from what you have judged and submit in full, [willing] submission” (Quran 4: 65).

My final bequest for my family and children is the same one that the Messenger of Allah (Pbuh) enjoined upon his followers: “The prayer, the prayer”. I advise and implore my family to have patience and accept Allah’s will. (Surah al-Baqarah: 156)

This concludes my Last Will and Testament. I am now free, in front of Allah (SWT), from any words or deeds that distort and contradict this document according to the guidance of Allah’s Messenger (Pbuh), as forewarned by the Quranic verse: “Then, whoever alters it [i.e. the bequest] after he has heard it - the sin is only upon those who have altered it.” (Quran 2:181).

”Exalted is your Lord, The Lord of might, above what they describe. And Peace be upon the messengers, and praise to Allah, Lord of the worlds” (Quran: 37: 180-182)

I subscribe my name to this Will this day ______at ______and do hereby declare that I sign and execute this instrument as my last Will and that I sign it willingly, that I execute it as my free and voluntary act for the purposes therein expressed, and that I am of age or otherwise legally empowered to make a Will, under no constraint or undue influence.

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Signature, Date and Time WITNESSES THIS INFORMATION IS REQUIRED FOR THE DEATH CERTIFICATE: On this day, ______date of ______, the undersigned declared to us that this instrument was his/her Will and requested us to act as witnesses to it. Full Name ______He/She thereupon signed this Will in our presence, all of us being present at the same time. We now, at his/ her request, in his/her presence, and in the presence of each other, subscribe our names as witness and Date Of Birth ______Place Of Birth ______declare that we understand this to be his/her Last Will, and that, to the best of our knowledge the testator is of the age of majority, or is otherwise legally empowered to make a Will, and under no constraint or Social Security Number ______Race ______undue influence. Street Address And Zip ______

City/Town Of Residence______County Of Residence______

Witness 1. Full Name Of Father ______Name and Signature First And Maiden Name Of Mother ______

Highest Level Of Education In Years Elementary/Secondary (0-12) ______College (1-4 Or 5+) ______Witness 2. ______Name and Signature Marital Status (Circle): Never Married Married Widowed Divorced If Married Or Widowed, Name Of Spouse ______HEALTH CARE PROXY AND LIVING WILL Usual Or Last Occupation ______Kind Of Business Or Industry______If the time comes when I am incapacitated and can no longer actively take part in decisions for my own life and am unable to direct my physician as to my own medical care, I wish this statement to stand as a testament of my wishes. Name Of Attending Physician ______

I, ______hereby appoint the following individual as my health care agent. Next of Kin and Contact info:______

Name: ______Phone#______THE NET VALUE OF YOUR ESTATE

I. ASSETS (Add up what you own and where located)

Address: A. Personal Property: ______1. Cash ______Located:______This health care proxy shall take effect if and when I become unable to make my own health care decisions. In respect of each decision made for me by my agent, it is my wish and direction that my agent be guided solely by Islamic Cash ______Located:______Shariah as to what my own decision would have been in the same circumstances. Without limiting the unrestricted scope of my agent’s authority hereunder, I expressly authorize my agent to direct that no treatment be conducted or withheld from me if to do so is against the teachings of Islam, to the best of understanding of my agent. I direct that 2. Savings: ______Bank______medication be judiciously administered to me to alleviate pain. I do not intend any direct taking of my life. I also direct that “life support systems” may be used in a judicious manner and its use discontinued, just like any other medicine, if it becomes reasonably apparent that it has no curative value. The “life support systems” include but are Savings: ______Bank______not limited to artificial respiration, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, artificial means of providing nutrition and hydration, and any pharmaceutical drugs. I direct that my family, all physicians, hospitals and other health care 3. Checking: ______Bank______providers and any court or judge honor the decision of my agent/alternate agent. This request is made, after careful reflection, while I am of sound mind. 4. Other: ______Name:______Signature:______5. Interest in Profit Sharing, Stock, Partnership, etc.______Witness 1. ______6. Automobiles, Jewelry, Household & Clothing______Name and Signature

7. Miscellaneous______Witness 2. ______B. Real Estate (describe for each property you own) Name and Signature

***OPTIONAL*** Value______Located______

Subscribed and sworn to before me this______day of ______, ______Value______Located______

Total Value of all the above assets: ______

Notary Public ______Signature & Seal II. LABILITIES (add what you owe)

1. Money Owed to______$______

Address and Phone: ______

2. Money Owed to______$______

In Case of Emergency Contact: (Include Mosques and all phone numbers) Address and Phone: ______

______3. Money Owed to______$______

______Address and Phone: ______

We hope this will benefit you and your family. For a will to be legal in most states, you have to be at least 18 4. Mortgage______years old and of sound mind. The will must be signed by you and witnessed by two people who won’t receive anything from your estate. However, please consult with an Islamic Scholar and/ or an attorney first. As 5. Personal debts: (loans, car, etc.)______always, please feel free to pass or share this information on to your friends and other Muslims. Pray for the people at The Islamic Bulletin who prepared this sample Will for you. Jazakum Allahu Khairan (May Allah Total Amount owed:______Reward You). If you want a copy in Arabic, French, Spanish, or need more copies are needed please go to: www.islamicbulletin.org and click on enter here and then Islamic Last Will. For a list of mosques click Safe Deposit Box______located at ______mosques under enter here. You can print the whole mosques in a PDF format. Rev. 2008

Passport # &Type ______Important Passwords #: ______For More Information Please Contact: This document, comprising ______pages, is made in ______copies. The original is with me, The Islamic Bulletin , P.O. Box 410186, San Francisco, CA 94141-0186 One copy is deposited with ______Name and Phone # Web: www.islamicbulletin.org E-Mail: [email protected] and one copy with ______Name and Phone # TORIES OF THE AHABA S S So long as Abdullah was away, Aminah remained sad and melancholic. Barakah stayed at her side trying to comfort her and make her cheerful by talking to her and relating stories. Aminah WHO IS BARAKAH? (R.A) however became even more distressed when Abd al-Muttalib came and told her she had to leave her home and go to the mountains as other Makkans had done because of an impending attack on the city by the ruler of Yemen, someone called Abrahah. Aminah told him that she was too grief-stricken and weak to leave for the mountains but insisted that Abrahah could never enter Makkah and destroy the Kabah because it was protected by the Lord. Abd al-Muttalib became very agitated but there was no sign of fear on Aminah’s face. Her confidence that the Kabah would not be harmed was well-founded. Abrahah’s army with an elephant in the vanguard was destroyed before it could enter Makkah.

Day and night, Barakah stayed beside Aminah. She said: “I slept at the foot of her bed and heard her groans at night as she called for her absent husband. Her moans would awaken me and I would try to comfort her and give her courage.”

The first part of the caravan from Syria returned and was joyously welcomed by the trading families of Makkah. Barakah went We do not know precisely how the young Abyssinian girl ended secretly to the house of Abd al-Muttalib to find out about up for sale in Makkah. Nor do we know her ‘roots’— who was Abdullah but had no news of him. She went back to Aminah but her mother, her father or her ancestors. There were many like did not tell her what she had seen or heard in order not to her, boys and girls, Arabs and non-Arabs, who were captured distress her. The entire caravan eventually returned but not with and brought to the slave market of the city to be sold. Abdullah.

A terrible fate awaited some who ended up in the hands of Later, Barakah was at Abd al-Muttalib’s house when news came cruel masters or mistresses. Many exploited their labor and from Yathrib that Abdullah had died. She said: “I screamed when treated them with the utmost harshness. I heard the news. I don’t know what I did after that except that I ran to Aminah’s house shouting, lamenting for the absent one A few in that inhumane environment were rather more who would never return, lamenting for the beloved one for fortunate. They were taken into the homes of more gentle and whom we waited so long, lamenting for the most beautiful caring people. Barakah, the young Abyssinian girl, was one of youth of Makkah, for Abdullah, the pride of the Quraysh. the more fortunate ones. She was saved by the generous and kind Abdullah, the son of Abd al-Muttalib. In fact, she became “When Aminah heard the painful news, she fainted and I stayed the only servant in his household and when he got married to by her bedside while she was in a state between life and death. the lady Aminah, Barakah looked after her affairs as well. There was no one else but me in Aminah’s house. I nursed her and looked after her during the day and through the long nights Two weeks after the couple were married, according to until she gave birth to her child, “Muhammad (SAW)”, on a night Barakah, Abdullah’s father came to their house and instructed in which the heavens were resplendent with the light of God.” his son to go with a trading caravan that was leaving for Syria. Aminah was deeply distressed and cried: When Muhammad (SAW) was born, Barakah was the first to hold him in her arms. His grandfather came and took him to the “How strange! How strange! How can my husband go on a Kabah and with all Makkah, celebrated his birth. Barakah stayed trading journey to Syria while I am yet a bride and the traces of with Aminah while Muhammad (SAW) was sent to the desert henna are still on my hands?” with the lady Halimah who looked after him in the bracing atmosphere of the open desert. At the end of five years, he was Abdullah’s departure was heartbreaking. In her anguish, Aminah brought back to Makkah and Aminah received him with fainted. Soon after he left, Barakah said: “When I saw Aminah tenderness and love and Barakah welcomed him “with joy, unconscious, I shouted in distress and pain: ‘O my lady!’ longing and admiration”. Aminah opened her eyes and looked at me with tears streaming down her face. Suppressing a groan she said: “Take me to bed, When Muhammad (SAW) was six years old, his mother decided Barakah.” to visit the grave of her husband, Abdullah, in Yathrib. Both Barakah and Abd al-Muttalib tried to dissuade her. Aminah “Aminah stayed bedridden for a long time. She spoke to no however was determined. So one morning they set off- Aminah, one. Neither did she look at anyone who visited her except Muhammad (SAW) and Barakah huddled together in a small Abd al-Muttalib, that noble and gentle old man. “Two months covering mounted on a large camel, part of a huge caravan that after the departure of Abdullah, Aminah called me at dawn one was going to Syria. In order to shield the tender child from any morning and, her face beaming with joy, she said to me: pain and worry, Aminah did not tell Muhammad (SAW) that she was going to visit the grave of his father. “O Barakah! I have seen a strange dream.” “Something good, my lady,” I said. “I saw lights coming from my abdomen lighting The caravan went at a brisk pace. Barakah tried to console up the mountains, the hills and the valleys around Makkah.” Aminah for her son’s sake and much of the time the boy “Do you feel pregnant, my lady?” Muhammad (SAW) slept with his arms around Barakah’s neck.

“Yes, Barakah,” she replied. “But I do not feel any discomfort The caravan took ten days to reach Yathrib. The boy Muhammad as other women feel.” “You shall give birth to a blessed child (SAW) was left with his maternal uncles of the Banu Najjar while who will bring goodness,” I said. Aminah went to visit the grave of Abdullah. Each day for a few weeks she stayed at the grave. She was consumed by grief.

The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 19 On the way back to Makkah, Aminah became seriously ill with Muhammad (SAW) of either going with his father or staying with fever. Halfway between Yathrib and Makkah, at a place called al- him. Zayd’s reply to his father was: Abwa, they stopped. Aminah’s health deteriorated rapidly. One pitch dark night, she was running a high temperature and called “I shall never leave this man. He has treated me nobly, as a out to Barakah in a choking voice. father would treat his son. Not a single day have I felt that I am a slave. He has looked after me well. He is kind and loving Barakah related: “She whispered in my ear: ‘O Barakah, I shall towards me and strives for my enjoyment and happiness. He is depart from this world shortly. I commend my son Muhammad the most noble of men and the greatest person in creation. How (SAW) to your care. He lost his father while he was in my can I leave him and go with you?...I shall never leave him.” abdomen. Here he is now, losing his mother under his very eyes. Be a mother to him, Barakah. And don’t ever leave him.’ Later, in public Muhammad (SAW) proclaimed the freedom of Zayd. However, Zayd continued to live with him as part of his “My heart was shattered and I began to sob and wail. The child household and devoted himself to his service. was distressed by my wailing and began to weep. He threw himself into his mother’s arms and held tightly onto her neck. When Muhammad (SAW) was blessed with Prophethood, She gave one last moan and then was forever silent.” Barakah and Zayd were among the first to believe in the message he proclaimed. They bore with the early Muslims the Barakah wept. She wept bitterly. With her own hands she dug a persecution which the Quraysh meted out to them. grave in the sand and buried Aminah, moistening the grave with whatever tears were left in her heart. Barakah Barakah and Zayd performed invaluable services to the returned with the orphan child to Makkah and placed mission of the Prophet (SAW). One night the him in the care of his grandfather. She stayed at his mushrikun blocked off the roads leading to the place house to look after him. When Abd al-Muttalib where the Prophet (SAW) gathered his companions died two years later, she went with the child to regularly to instruct them in the teachings of the house of his uncle Abu Talib and continued Islam. Barakah had some urgent information from to look after his needs until he was grown up Khadijah which had to be conveyed to the and married the lady Khadijah. “I shall never Prophet (SAW). She risked her life trying to reach leave you. Does a this gathering. When she arrived and conveyed Barakah then stayed with Muhammad (SAW) and mother abandon the message to the Prophet (SAW), he smiled Khadijah in a house belonging to Khadijah. “I and said to her: never left him and he never left me,” she said. her son?” One day Muhammad (SAW), may Allah bless him “You are blessed, Umm Ayman. Surely you have and grant him peace, called out to her and said: a place in Paradise.” When Umm Ayman left, the “Ya Ummah!” (He always called her “Mother”) Prophet (SAW) looked at his companions and “Now I am a married man, and you are still asked: “Should one of you desire to marry a woman unmarried. What do you think if someone should from the people of Paradise, let him marry Umm come now and ask to marry you?” Barakah looked at Ayman.” Muhammad (SAW) and said: “I shall never leave you. Does a mother abandon her son?” Muhammad (SAW) smiled All the companions remained silent and did not utter a word. and kissed her head. He looked at his wife Khadijah and said to Umm Ayman was neither young nor attractive. She was by now her: “This is Barakah. This is my mother after my own mother. about fifty years old and looked rather frail. Zayd ibn al-Harithah She is the rest of my family.” however came forward and said:

Barakah looked at the lady Khadijah who said to her: “Barakah, “Messenger of Allah, I shall marry Umm Ayman. By Allah, she is you have sacrificed your youth for the sake of Muhammad better than women who have grace and beauty.” (SAW). Now he wants to pay back some of his obligations to you. For my sake and his, agree to be married before old age Zayd and Umm Ayman were married and were blessed with a overtakes you.” son whom they named Usamah. The Prophet (SAW), may Allah bless him and grant him peace, loved Usamah as his own son. “Whom shall I marry, my lady?” asked Barakah. “There is Ubayd Often he played with him, kissed him and fed him with his own ibn Zayd from the Khazraj tribe of Yathrib. He has come to us hands. The Muslims would say: “He is the beloved son of the seeking your hand in marriage. For my sake, don’t refuse.” beloved.” From an early age Usamah distinguished himself in the service of lslam, and was later given weighty responsibilities by Barakah agreed. She married Ubayd ibn Zayd and went with him the Prophet (SAW). to Yathrib. There she gave birth to a son whom she called Ayman and from that time onwards people called her “Umm Ayman”, When the Prophet (SAW) migrated to Yathrib, henceforth to be the mother of Ayman. known as al-Madinah, he left Umm Ayman behind in Makkah to look after affairs in his household. Eventually she migrated to Her marriage, however, did not last very long. Her husband died Madinah on her own. She made the long and difficult journey and she returned once more to Makkah to live with her “son” through the desert and mountainous terrain on foot. The heat Muhammad (SAW) in the house of the lady Khadijah. Living in was killing and sandstorms obscured the way but she persisted, the same household at the time were Ali ibn Abi Talib and Zayd borne along by her deep love and attachment for Muhammad ibn Harithah. (SAW), may God bless him and grant him peace. When she reached Madinah, her feet were sore and swollen and her face Zayd was an Arab from the tribe of Kalb who was captured as a was covered with sand and dust. boy and brought to Makkah to be sold in the slave market. He was bought by Khadijah’s nephew and put in her service. In “Ya Umm Ayman! Ya Ummi! (O Umm Ayman! O my mother!) Khadijah’s household, Zayd became attached to Muhammad Indeed for you is a place in Paradise!” exclaimed the Prophet (SAW) and devoted himself to his service. Their relationship was (SAW) when he saw her. He wiped her face and eyes, massaged like that of a son to a father. Indeed when Zayd’s father came to her feet and rubbed her shoulders with his kind and gentle Makkah in search of him, Zayd was given the choice by hands.

The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 20 At Madinah, Umm Ayman contributed her full part in the affairs We also learn from the Prophet (saw) the importance of having haya of the Muslims. At Uhud she distributed water to the thirsty and and how it is not something to be ashamed of, but instead, one should tended the wounded. She accompanied the Prophet (SAW) on be concerned and embarrassed if they do not possess it within their some expeditions, to Khaybar and Hunayn for example. character. Barakah’s son, Ayman, a devoted companion of the Prophet (SAW) was martyred at Hunayn in the eighth year after the Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar (ra): The Prophet (saw) passed by a man Hijrah. Also, her husband, Zayd, was killed at the Battle of Mutah in Syria after a lifetime of distinguished service to the who was admonishing his brother regarding Haya and was saying, Prophet (SAW) and Islam. Barakah at this time was about “You are very shy, and I am afraid that might harm you.” On that, seventy years old and spent much of her time at home. The Allah’s Apostle (SAW) said, “Leave him, for Haya is (a part) of Faith.” Prophet (SAW), accompanied by Abu Bakr and Umar often (Bukhari) visited her and asked: “Ya Ummi! Are you well?” and she would reply: “I am well, O Messenger of Allah, so long as Islam is.” The above hadith is also a form of proof that “shyness” is not just After the Prophet (SAW), may Allah bless him and grant him something regarding women but also an attribute that believing men peace, had died, Barakah would often be found with tears in her should have, for it is an indication of their fear of Allah and an eyes. She was once asked, “Why are you crying?” and she indication of the value of their Deen. replied: “By Allah, I knew that the Messenger of Allah would die but I cry now because the revelation from on high has come to an end for us.” We often find that shyness, humility and bashfulness are frowned Barakah was unique in that she was the only one who was so upon by our society as a weakness or a lack of confidence when, in close to the Prophet (SAW) throughout his life, from birth till fact, these are qualities of a dignified upright human being, who is death. Her life was one of selfless service in the Prophet conscious of his actions and his responsibilities in life. (SAW)’s household. She remained deeply devoted to the gentle and caring Prophet (SAW). Above all, her devotion to the religion of Islam was strong and unshakable. She died during the There are two different types of haya—the good haya and the bad. caliphate of Uthman. Although her roots were unknown, her The good haya is to be ashamed to commit a sin or a thing which place in Paradise is assured. Allah and His Messenger (saw) has forbidden. The bad haya is to feel ashamed to do a thing which Allah and His Messenger (saw) has HAYA (SHYNESS) ordered us to do.

Haya is an Arabic word derived There are different types of good haya. For example, a believer should from the word hayat, which build his personality and character with the good dimensions of haya. means life. This term covers a The most important is that he must be shy of doing ANYTHING wide number of concepts. In displeasing to Allah (SWT) with the belief that he will have to answer English, it may be translated as for all his deeds. If one develops a sense such as this one, it will help modesty, shyness, self-respect, the believer to obey all of Allah’s commandments and to stay away bashfulness, shame, honor, from sins. humility, etc. The original meaning of haya refers to a bad Once the believer realizes that Allah (SWT) is watching us all the time and uneasy feeling and we will have to answer to every move we make in this dunya accompanied by (world), he would not neglect any order from Allah or His Messenger embarrassment, caused by one’s (saws). So the stronger this sense of haya becomes, the more it fear of being exposed for some motivates one to make sure that Allah (SWT) doesn’t see him doing unworthy or indecent conduct. anything prohibited. The way to develop this haya is that one must keep learning and absorbing more knowledge and applying it to his Islamically, haya is an attribute which encourages believers to avoid life. Another type of haya is more of a social aspect concerning others anything distasteful. It keeps them from being neglectful in giving besides Allah (SWT). Normally these things often come in regard with others what is due upon them, and if for any reason they are not one’s relationship with family. For instance, a child not wanting to do able to keep up with their commitments, then they will feel something displeasing to his mother, or a wife not wanting to do extremely uncomfortable and ashamed about this. The main reason something displeasing to her husband, or even a student who is careful for this uncomfortable feeling would be the knowledge that they had about saying something incorrect in front of his teacher are all forms of displeased Allah. haya.

Haya plays a huge role in the lives of Muslims because it is a very Last but not least is the type of haya in which the believers become shy important part of our Iman (faith/belief). If we do not have any form of themselves. This is when they have reached the peak of their Iman. of haya within us then it is most likely that our Iman is very weak. It For example, if they do, say, or see anything wrong or even commit states in the following hadith: the tiniest sin, they start to feel extremely bad and embarrassed or they feel extreme guilt in their hearts. This builds a high degree of self- consciousness and that is what strengthens a Muslim’s commitment to Narrated by Abu Huraira (ra): The Prophet (SAW) said, “Faith (Belief) Allah (SWT). consists of more than sixty branches (i.e. parts). And Haya is a part of faith.” (Bukhari) After discussing the various types of “beneficial” haya, it is time to discuss the type of haya which is not only against the teachings of our The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 21 Prophet (saw), but it is also solid proof of the weakness of someone’s Iman. This negative aspect revolves around a person’s shamefulness RIGHTS IN ISLAM or shyness of doing something that Allah (SWT) has ordered us to do “HUQOOQUL-ISLAM” By Ashraf Ali Thanwi (Rahimu Allah) through the Qur’an or our Prophet’s (saw) Sunnah. This constitutes the shamefulness or embarrassment of doing a lawful act or The general rights to be observed mutually among all Muslims are enlisted: something that is ordered upon us from Allah (SWT). This means that someone does not follow an obligation of Islam due to the fact of ‹ Forgive the mistakes of another Muslim. being shy in front of others about it. This is totally forbidden because ‹ Show sympathy over his grief. then one is giving the people of this dunya more respect than the ‹ Hide his faults. One who Created this whole universe. An example of this type of bad haya is to neglect making one’s prayer in a public place due to ‹ Accept his excuse. being embarrassed in front of others. Another example would be that ‹ Remove his difficulty. many sisters feel embarrassed to wear hijab for fear of being laughed ‹ Always wish for his well-being. at or made fun of. If someone really had haya they would never ‹ Safeguard his love. contradict ANYTHING that Allah (SWT) has ordained upon us even if they found it a test and a trial. ‹ Have respect for his pacts. ‹ Visit him when he is ill. Modesty (haya) and maintaining one’s honor and dignity are of ‹ Attend his funeral. primary importance in preserving the moral fiber of any society. This ‹ Accept his invitation. is why modesty has been called the ornament of a woman, which ‹ Accept his gifts. protects her from many sins and which prevents ill-intentioned men ‹ from daring to have bad thoughts about her. This haya has been Repay his kindness. made a part of her nature to safeguard her from being abused by ‹ Thank him for his favours. immoral men. ‹ Help him in his time of need. ‹ Protect his wife and children. Haya is a special characteristic of a Mu’min (believing, practicing ‹ Fulfill his needs. Muslim). Haya and Iman are interdependent; therefore either they ‹ Listen to his requests. both exist together or they both perish. The Prophet (saw) has said in one hadith, “When there is no haya left, then do as you please.” ‹ Accept his intercession. ‹ Do not make him despondent in his ambitions. There are many wonderful benefits of haya. First, Allah (SWT) loves ‹ Say Yarhamukallah (May Allah bestow his Mercy on you.)upon haya. We know this by the following hadith: “Surely Allah (is One him saying Al-Hamdu-lillah (Praise be to Allah) after sneezing. who) has haya and is the Protector. He loves haya and people who ‹ Return his lost property. cover each other’s faults.”(Bukhari) ‹ Reply his greeting (Salaam). ‹ Speak to him kindly and courteously. Secondly, haya itself is a greatness of Islam as our Prophet (saw) ‹ Treat him kindly. indicated: “Every way of life has a innate character. The character of Islam is haya.” Or “Every deen has an innate character. The ‹ If one Muslim takes an oath on the strength of the other, character of Islam is modesty (haya).” (Abu Dawood) it should be honoured by the other. ‹ Help him when he is oppressed, and stop him when he Third, haya only brings good and nothing else. Our Prophet (saw) oppresses others. said: “Haya does not bring anything except good.” (Bukhari) ‹ Be his friend, not his enemy. ‹ Do not disgrace him. Fourth, Haya is a very clear indication of our Iman. As the Prophet ‹ Love for him what you love for yourself. (saw) had mentioned to the Ansar who was condemning his brother ‹ Greet him (with salaam) when meeting him. about being shy: “Leave him, for Haya is (a part) of Faith.” (Bukhari) ‹ Never break off ties for more than 3 days if an argument arises. ‹ Do not be suspicious of him. Last, Haya leads us to PARADISE. As the Prophet (saw) told us: “Haya comes from Iman; Iman leads to Paradise. Obscenity comes from ‹ Do not be jealous of him nor bear enmity towards him. antipathy; and antipathy leads to the fire.” (Bukhari) ‹ Where possible observe amar bil ma’roof and nahi anil munkar (to command good and prohibit evil) towards the next Muslim. As mentioned before, since the actual word Haya is derived from ‹ Have mercy on the little ones and respect the elders. Hayat, which means life, it is only obvious that when someone has ‹ Create peace between 2 Muslims whom have had an argument. Haya in them, they will live a life of Islam. On the other hand if they ‹ do not have Haya they are living a life that is dead “Islamically”, but Do not backbite another Muslim. alive according to this dunya. ‹ Do not cause harm to his body, wealth or honour. ‹ Help him mount his animal or load his goods on to it when he The Prophet (saw) said: “Haya and trustworthiness will be the first is unable to do so. to go from this world; therefore keep asking Allah for them.” ‹ Do not ask him to leave and then take his place. (Baihaqi) ‹ Two people should not speak in whispers while a third is in their presence. The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 22 THE QUR’AN & SCIENCE far as Japan. The word “rook” comes from the Persian “rukh”, which means chariot. How Islamic inventors changed the world (4) A thousand years before the Wright brothers, a Muslim poet, Today, we attribute most of the modern sciences and astronomer, musician and engineer named Abbas ibn Firnas discoveries to the Western world. But, the truth is that though made several attempts to construct a flying machine. In 852 he western progress in science and technology is to be lauded in jumped from the minaret of the Grand Mosque in Cordoba using the present world, it was the great influence of Arabs and a loose cloak stiffened with wooden struts. Muslims in the fields of philosophy, astronomy, medicine and mathematics that has made humans a race of intelligent and He hoped to glide like a bird. He didn’t. But the cloak slowed his intellectual beings. fall, creating what is thought to be the first parachute, and leaving him with only minor injuries. From coffee to cheques and the In 875, aged 70, having perfected a machine of silk and eagles’ three-course meal, feathers he tried again, jumping from a mountain. He flew to a the Muslim world has significant height and stayed aloft for ten minutes but crashed on given us many landing — concluding, correctly, that it was because he had not innovations that we in given his device a tail so it would stall on landing. Baghdad the West take for international airport and a crater on the Moon are named after granted. Here are 20 him. of their most influential innovations: (5) Washing and bathing are religious requirements for Muslims, which is perhaps why they perfected the recipe for soap which (1) The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his we still use today. The ancient Egyptians had soap of a kind, as goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he did the Romans who used it more as a pomade. But it was the noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. Arabs who combined vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide and aromatics such as thyme oil. One of the Crusaders’ most striking He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the characteristics, to Arab nostrils, was that they did not wash. first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Shampoo was introduced to England by a Muslim who opened Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on Mahomed’s Indian Vapour Baths on Brighton seafront in 1759 special occasions. Moka, Mocca, Mokha and Mocha, have all and was appointed Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and been used to designate a specific coffee. It’s confusing and William IV. misleading since the term has been used to distinguish varietals, blends and even flavors. Today, most people think of (6) Distillation, the means of separating liquids through the word, “ mocha”, as the flavor combining chocolate differences in their boiling points, was invented around and coffee. Yet, “mocha’s” history traces back centuries the year 800 by Islam’s foremost scientist, Jabir ibn ago to the port city named Al-Makha. Located on the Hayyan, who transformed alchemy into chemistry, Red Sea in the Republic of Yemen, Al-Makha was the inventing many of the basic processes and apparatus export location for coffee and other spices traded from still in use today — liquefaction, crystallisation, Asia. Since Yemen was the first country to cultivate and distillation, purification, oxidisation, evaporation and export coffee, the word Mocha was attached to all filtration. coffee imported into Europe. Hence Yemen Mocha has always been the distinctive varietal from Yemen, known for its As well as discovering sulphuric and nitric acid, he invented the exceptional taste, rare availability and exotic location. alembic still, giving the world intense rosewater and other perfumes and alcoholic spirits (although drinking them forbidden, By the late 15th century it had arrived in Makkah and Turkey in Islam). Ibn Hayyan emphasised systematic experimentation from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought and was the founder of modern chemistry. to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of (7) The crank-shaft is a device which translates rotary into linear London. The Arabic “qahwa” became the Turkish “kahve” then motion and is central to much of the machinery in the modern the Italian “caffé” and then English “coffee”. world, not least the internal combustion engine. One of the most important mechanical inventions in the history of (2) The ancient Greeks thought our eyes emitted rays, like a humankind, it was created by an ingenious Muslim engineer laser, which enabled us to see. The first person to realise that called al-Jazari to raise water for irrigation. light enters the eye, rather than leaving it, was the 10th- century Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physicist Ibn His Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206) al-Haitham. shows he also invented or refined the use of valves and pistons, devised some of the first mechanical clocks driven by water and He invented the first pin-hole camera after noticing the way weights, and was the father of robotics. Among his 50 other light came through a hole in window shutters. The smaller the inventions was the combination lock. hole, the better the picture, he worked out, and set up the first Camera Obscura (from the Arab word “qamara” for a dark (8) Quilting is a method of sewing or tying two layers of cloth or private room). with a layer of insulating material in between. It is not clear whether it was invented in the Muslim world or whether it was He is also credited with being the first man to shift physics imported there from India or China. from a philosophical activity to an experimental one. (3) A form of chess was played in ancient India but the game However, it certainly came to the West via the Crusaders. They was developed into the form we know it today in Persia. From saw it used by Saracen warriors, who wore straw-filled quilted there it spread westward to Europe — where it was introduced canvas shirts instead of armour. As well as a form of protection, it by the Moors in Spain in the 10th century — and eastward as proved an effective guard against the chafing of the Crusaders’ The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No.metal 23 armour and was an effective form of insulation Page— so 23much so that it became a cottage industry back home in colder Algorithms and much of the theory of trigonometry came from climates such as Britain and Holland. the Muslim world. And Al-Kindi’s discovery of frequency analysis rendered all the codes of the ancient world soluble and created (9) The pointed arch so characteristic of Europe’s Gothic the basis of modern cryptology. cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture. It was much stronger than the rounded arch used by the Romans (15) Ali ibn Nafi, known by his nickname of Ziryab (Blackbird) and Normans, thus allowing the building of bigger, higher, more came from Iraq to Cordoba in the 9th century and brought with complex and grander buildings. him the concept of the three-course meal — soup, followed by fish or meat, then fruit and nuts. He also introduced crystal Other borrowings from Muslim genius included ribbed vaulting, glasses (which had been invented after experiments with rock rose windows and dome-building techniques. Europe’s castles crystal by Abbas ibn Firnas). were also adapted to copy the Islamic world’s — with arrow slits, battlements, a barbican and parapets. Square towers and keeps (16) Carpets were regarded as part of paradise by mediaeval gave way to more easily defended round ones. The architect of Muslims, thanks to their advanced weaving techniques, new Henry V’s castle was a Muslim. tinctures from Islamic chemistry and highly developed sense of pattern and arabesque which were the basis of Islam’s non- (10) Many modern surgical instruments are of exactly the same representational art. design as those devised in the 10th century by a Muslim surgeon called al-Zahrawi. His scalpels, bone saws, forceps, fine scissors In contrast, Europe’s floors were distinctly earthly, not to say for eye surgery and many of the 200 instruments he devised are earthy, until Arabian and Persian carpets were introduced. In recognisable to a modern surgeon. England, as Erasmus recorded, floors were “covered in rushes, occasionally renewed, but so imperfectly that the bottom layer is It was he who discovered that catgut used for internal stitches left undisturbed, sometimes for 20 years, harbouring dissolves away naturally (a discovery he made when his monkey expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale ate his lute strings) and that it can be also used to make droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be medicine capsules. mentioned”. Carpets, unsurprisingly, caught on quickly.

In the 13th century, another (17) The modern cheque comes from the Arabic “saqq”, a Muslim medic named Ibn Nafis written vow to pay for goods when they were delivered, to avoid described the circulation of the money having to be transported across dangerous terrain. In the blood, 300 years before William 9th century, a Muslim businessman could cash a cheque in China Harvey discovered it. Muslim drawn on his bank in Baghdad. doctors also invented anaesthetics of opium and (18) By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted alcohol mixes and developed that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn hollow needles to suck cataracts Hazm, “is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on from eyes in a technique still Earth”. It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on used today. Galileo.

(11) The windmill was invented The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in in 634 for a Persian caliph and the 9th century they reckoned the Earth’s circumference to be was used to grind corn and draw 40, 253.4km — less than 200km out. Al-Idrisi took a globe up water for irrigation. In the vast deserts of Arabia, when the depicting the world to the court of King Roger of Sicily in 1139. seasonal streams ran dry, the only source of power was the wind which blew steadily from one direction for months. Mills had six (19) Though the Chinese invented saltpetre gunpowder, and or 12 sails covered in fabric or palm leaves. It was 500 years used it in their fireworks, it was the Arabs who worked out that it before the first windmill was seen in Europe. could be purified using potassium nitrate for military use. Muslim incendiary devices terrified the Crusaders. (12) The technique of inoculation was not invented by Jenner and Pasteur but was devised in the Muslim world and brought to By the 15th century they had invented both a rocket, which they Europe from Turkey by the wife of the English ambassador to called a “self-moving and combusting egg”, and a torpedo — a Istanbul in 1724. Children in Turkey were vaccinated with self-propelled pear-shaped bomb with a spear at the front which cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the impaled itself in enemy ships and then blew up. West discovered it. (20) Mediaeval Europe had kitchen and herb gardens, but it was (13) The fountain pen was invented for the Sultan of Egypt in the Arabs who developed the idea of the garden as a place of 953 after he demanded a pen which would not stain his hands or beauty and meditation. The first royal pleasure gardens in Europe clothes. It held ink in a reservoir and, as with modern pens, fed were opened in 11th-century Muslim Spain. Flowers which ink to the nib by a combination of gravity and capillary action. originated in Muslim gardens include the carnation and the tulip.

(14) The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals is Arabic and first appears in print in the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and al-Kindi around 825. Algebra was named after al-Khwarizmi’s book, Al-Jabr wa-al- EDITORS NOTE: Muqabilah, much of whose contents are still in use. The work of Muslim maths scholars was imported into Europe 300 years later When requesting information or literature from The Islamic by the Italian mathematician Fibonacci. Bulletin please make sure that your full name and address is inside the body of your request. We have been having some problems reading addresses from envelopes only. Thank you. The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 24 KID’S CORNER Editors Note:

Once there was an emperor Anyone interested in assisting the staff at the Islamic who needed to choose his Bulletin is encouraged to contact us as soon as possible. successor. So, he decided to There are various tasks relating to different skill levels, rang- call all the young people in the ing from updating mosque listings, Pagemaker, Access, kingdom and announced, “It is time for me to step down and design, preparing and mailing literature, and so much more. choose the next emperor. So, I Working of the Islamic Bulletin is a great way to get re- am going to give each one of wards, while spreading the word of Allah. Jazakum Allahu you a seed today- a very Khairan. special seed. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here after one year from today with what you have grown from this one seed. I will then choose the next emperor based on the ROSSWORD UZZLE plants that you bring!” C P

So, everyone took a seed and started planting, including a boy called Ling. After about four weeks, some of the other youths began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Ling kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Six months went by and Ling heard that everyone else had grown various types of trees, plants and flowers. But still, he had nothing. Then, the day came when all the youth of the kingdom brought their plants to the emperor for inspection. Although afraid, Ling went to the castle anyway. There, he was amazed at the variety of beautiful plants grown by the other youths. Ling put his empty pot on the floor and many of the other kids laughed at him. When the emperor arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted the young people. Ling just tried to hide in the back. “What great plants, trees and flowers you have grown,” said the emperor. “Today, one of you will be appointed the next emperor!” All of a sudden, the emperor spotted Ling at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered his guards to bring him to the front. Ling was terrified. “The emperor knows I’m a failure! Maybe he will have me killed!” When Ling got to the front, the emperor asked his name. “My name is Ling,” he replied. All the kids began laughing, but the emperor asked everyone to quiet down. He looked at Ling, and then announced to the crowd, “Behold your new emperor! His name is Ling!” Ling couldn’t believe it. Ling couldn’t even grow his seed. How could he be the new emperor? Across: Then the emperor said, “One year ago today, I gave everyone Down: here a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and 1: The first pillar is ...... , a declaration of faith. 1: ..... means prayer five times a bring it back to me today. But what you didn’t know was that I 4: Jibril was an ..... who appeared to day. gave you all boiled seeds, which would not grow. All of you Muhammad. 2: .... is pilgrimage to Makkah. have brought me trees, plants and flowers. All except Ling! 7: During Hajj Muslims visit Mount 3: Where is Muhammad (SAW) When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted ...... where they stand before Allah. buried ? another seed for the one I gave you. Ling was the only one with 8: The name for a Muslim festival. 5: .... means fasting. the honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he 10: The Muslim holy book. 6: The third pillar of Islam is ..... is the only one I know fit to be the new emperor!” 14: Muhammad’s (SAW)age when 9: You may expect to find the his mother died and the number of children he had with Khadijah. greeting “Eid ...... ” inside a card The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 15: A ..... is a set of positions for sent at Eid-Ul-Fitr. Muslim prayers. 11: The English word for masjid is “Verily, this world is sweet and appealing, and Allah placed you as 17: Before praying Muslims ...., this ….., Muslim place of worship vicegerents therein; He will see what you will do. So, be careful of is called wudu. 12: The Arabic name for God. [what you do in] this world.” (Muslim) 18: During Ramadan Muslims do 13: The cube black stone at not ... during the hours of daylight. Makkah is called the ..... 19: The name for the Muslim 16: To make sure they have a “Honesty leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to religion. clean place to pray Muslims often Paradise.” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim) use prayer ....

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The Islamic Bulletin Volume X No. 23 Page 25 COOK’S CORNER HAJJ- ANOTHER PILLAR OF ISLAM Hajj is one of the pillars of Islam. TIRAMISU Yet, perhaps because a Muslim must By Carla Biasatti only complete it once in his/her lifetime, it often gets forgotton. The Declaration of Faith (the Shahadah), the 5 daily prayers, the fast in Ramadan, and the charity are practiced throughout a Muslim’s life. However, the Hajj is something which is many times put off until a Muslim is older. How can I make the Hajj and become a Hajji when I am so young? Somehow, we only remember the older men and women as hajjis. It probably doesn’t help that we know very few “young” Hajjis.

Young or old, Hajj is an obligatory act in Islam. If a Muslim is able to make the Hajj and can afford to do so, it should not be postponed for “later”, when I get older. I remember once being asked by a friend of mine if it was o.k. that she make the hajj with her husband since she did not wear hijab. She had explained that she was not comfortable going on hajj since she was disobeying one of Allah’s commands (wearing the hijab) and yet, she said that she was not ready to wear the hijab permanently. I looked through many books and referred her to a local Imam to answer her question. She was told to go on the Hajj with her huusband, even though she was not wearing hijab. The name Tiramisu is Italian and means “pick me up”. It can be translated figuratively as something to make me less sad or something that makes me Where everyone thinks that they have to be a “perfect” Muslim for their happier. After fasting the whole day, and praying the Taraweeh prayers, Hajj to be accepted is in fact, untrue. Hajj is a Fard (mandatory obligation) this is a perfect dessert –light, cool, and refreshing—something to “pick that must be completed once in a Muslim’s life. So, if you are able to make you up.” A perfect dessert for Ramadan! the journey of Hajj, do not delay. Ingredients Immediately after we got married, my husband and I went on the Hajj. I am Sugar, 1/4 cup very thankful to Allah to have completed my Hajj before the responsibilities Egg Yolks, 2 of children came along. And last year, Alhamdullilah, after many years, I was blessed once again to have journeyed to the House of Allah and make the Cream Cheese, 8 oz. softened Hajj again. This time, I made the Hajj with my father and mother, an Sour Cream, 3 Tbsp. experience which I will never forget. Half & Half Milk, 2 Tbsp Heavy Whipping Cream, 7 oz. whipped The story of how the Hajj guide came into existence, in fact, started by my taking this second trip to Hajj. While busy preparing for my trip, I began Strong, Brewed Coffe (preferebly espresso) 1 Cup + 2 Tbsp. reading the rituals of Hajj and learning as much as I could before departing. I Sugar, 2 Tbsp. even took a one-day seminar that was given at the masjid (May Allah reward Lady Fingers or Savoiardi ( a type of Italian cookies) 24 Imam Tahir Anwar for a most terrific class) so that I would be sure that nothing would be left out. Inshallah, I wanted a complete and perfect Hajj. Powedered, Sweetened Cocoa, 3 Tbsp. Knowing that carrying a small Hajj pamphlet around Mecca, with millions of people crammed together would be quite difficult for me, my husband Directions: Mix the sugar with the egg yolks on medium speed until decided to make a one-page hajj guide. And this is how the initial project of fluffy. Add the cream cheese, sour cream, and half & half milk. Beat on making this hajj guide began. medium low speed until smooth. Fold in the whipping cream and 2 Tbsp. of coffee. Meanwhile, quickly dip each lady finger in the coffee and layer Alhumdullilah, the Islamic Bulletin now compiles this one page Hajj and the bottom of an 8by8 glass cake pan.Spread half the mixture of the lady Umrah guide. Because it is so concise, many people have commented that it fingers. Again, quickly dip the remaining lady fingers in the coffee and make another layer on top of the creamed layer. Spread the remaing makes the details of the Hajj less confusing. One will find each step clearly cream mixture on top of the lady fingers. Garnish with th sweetened broken down, without having to flip through various pages of different books. cocoa. Refrigerate overnight and serve cold. Serves 8 people. This guide provides all the basics and much more information to assist you : *Step by step details of each ritual WARNING: Please be extremely careful if you eat Tiramisu at an *Map of the Kaaba to help you locate Safa and Marwa unknown location. The traditional way of making Tiramisu is with the *A visual representation of the steps for Tawaf addition of marsala brandy and mascarpone cheese. In fact, very few *Key duas that should be recited, inclluding appropriate times and places places that sell Tiramisu do not include these two ingredients in their *The miles and kilometers of the necessary routes recipes. Therefore, you must be diligent in checking the ingredient list so you do not consume anything that does not have halal ingredients. *The schedules one needs to know Buon Appetito !! On the following page, you will find a copy of this Hajj and Umrah guide. We encourage you to download extra copies from our website at www.islamicbulletin.org and share with your Muslim friends who are going

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Upon entering al-Masjidul-Haraam with the right foot, recite – َر بﱢ ا ﻏْ ِﻔ ﺮْ وَا ْرﺣَﻢ، إِ ﱠﻧ ﻚَ أَ ْﻧ ﺖَ ا ﻷَ ﻋَ ﱡﺰ اﻷَآْﺮَم (Upon arrival in Makkah - ‘Umrah (Tawaaful-Qudoom Rabbighfir warham innaka antal a'azzul akram ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﺻ ﻞﱢ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ُﻣ ﺤَ ﱠﻤ ٍﺪ وَ َﺳﻠﱢﻢ، 8th Dhul-Hijjah - Wearing The Ihram` ,O Lord forgive me and have mercy ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ ا ﻓْ َﺘ ﺢْ ﻟِﻲ َأ ْﺑ َﻮ ا بَ رَﺣْﻤَﺘِﻚ Stay In Mina Verily You are the Mightiest and Noblest. Allahumma salli `alaa muhammadin wa sallim – Complete walk from as-Safa to al-Marwah (one circuit), then al-Marwah to as-Safa 9th Dhul-Hijjah - Stand In ‘Arafah Allahumma aftah lee abwaaba rahmatika (second circuit) and continue for seven circuits, finishing at al-Marwah. Upon encountering green lights, men only - run from one light to other light. Stay In Muzdalifah O Allah, send prayers and peace upon Muhammad, O Allah, open the doors of Your Mercy for me. Upon leaving al-Masjidul-Haraam with the left foot, recite –

10th Dhul-Hijjah - Stoning The Pillars Starting at al-Hajarul-Aswad (The Black Stone)1, men only - uncover right shoulder ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﺻ ﻞﱢ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ُﻣ ﺤَ ﱠﻤ ٍﺪ وَ َﺳﻠﱢﻢ، by placing Ihram underneath right arm-pit. When beginning each circuit, make a Performing The Sacrifice sign with your right hand towards al-Hajarul-Aswad (The Black Stone)2, and recite – ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ إِﻧﱢﻲ أَ ْﺳ ﺄَ ُﻟ ﻚَ ِﻣ ﻦْ ﻓَﻀْﻠِﻚ ﱠاﻟﻠ ُﻪ أَآْﺒَﺮ Shave Head Allahumma salli 'ala muhammadin wa sallim – Tawaaful-Ifaadhah Allahu Akbar Allah is the Greatest. Allahumma innee 'as'aluka min fadhlika 11th, 12th, 13th Dhul-Hijjah - Stay In Mina For Stoning Make seven circuit’s of Ka’bah 3 (for first three circuit’s only, men only - swiftly walk O Allah, send prayers and peace upon Muhammad, around the Ka’bah; Then begin fourth circuit, walking at normal pace completely O Allah, verily I ask You from Your Favour. Upon departure from Makkah - Tawaaful-Wadaa’ around and finish until seventh circuit). During each circuit, whilst between ar- Finally, Men: cut hair equally from all over head - best, or shave head. Ruknul-Yamaanee (The Yemeni Corner) 4 and The Black Stone, recite – Women: cut one-third finger length of hair. Remove Ihram, as all restrictions are now lifted - and await morning of 8th of Dhul- .Hijjah {رَﺑﱠﻨَﺎ ﺁﺗِﻨَﺎ ﻓِﻲ اﻟﺪﱡﻧْﻴَﺎ ﺣَ ﺴَ ﻨَ ﺔً وَ ﻓِﻲ ا ﻵ ﺧِ ﺮَ ةِ 8th day of Dhul-Hijjah (Yawmut-Tarwiyah) :Between the time period of after Fajr until before Zhuhr ﺣَ ﺴَ ﻨَ ﺔً وَ ﻗِﻨَﺎ َﻋ َﺬ ا بَ اﻟﻨﱠﺎر} Rabbanaa aatinaa fid-dunyaa hasanatan wa feel aakhirati Wearing The Ihram hasanatan wa qinaa 'adhaaban naar Enter state of Ihram 5; Make intention for Hajj, reciting - Our Lord! Give us in this world that which is good and in the Hereafter that َﻟ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ ِﺑ ﺤَ ّﺞ !which is good, and save us from the torment of the Fire Cover right shoulder, and then go behind Station of Ibrahim and recite – LabbaikAllahumma bi -hajjah

Here I am O Allah, (in response to Your call) making Hajj. – In fear of not completing the Hajj, recite {و ﱠَاﺗﺨِﺬُوْا ِﻣ ﻦْ ﱠﻣ َﻘ ﺎ ِم ِإ ْﺑ َﺮ ا هِ ْﻴ ﻢَ ﻣُﺼَﻠﻰ} Wattakhidhoo min-maqaami ibraaheema musalla ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ ﻣَ ﺤِ ﱢﻠ ْﻲ َﺣ ْﻴ ﺚُ ﺣَﺒَﺴْﺘَﻨِﻲ .And take the station of Ibrahim as a place of prayer Behind Station of Ibrahim - if possible, otherwise anywhere within al-Masjidul- Allahumma mahillee haithu habastanee Haraam: Pray two rakaah naafilah; in first rakaah recite Soorah al-Kaafiroon and in O Allah, [If I am prevented by an obstacle then indeed] second rakaah, Soorah al-Ikhlaas. Then go to Zam-Zam well and drink from it, then my place is where You prevent me. pour some water over head. Return to al-Hajarul-Aswad and make a sign with your Standing, face the Qiblah and recite – 2 right hand towards it for the last time , and recite – ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ هَ ﺬِ ِﻩ َﺣ ﱠﺠ ٌﺔ ﻻَ ِر َﻳ ﺎ ءَ ﻓِﻴْﻬَﺎ وَ ﻻَ ﺳُﻤْﻌَﺔ ﱠاﻟﻠ ُﻪ أَآْﺒَﺮ Allahu Akbar Allahumma haadhihi hajjah, laa riyaa'a feehaa wa laa sum'ah Allah is the Greatest. O Allah, there is no showing off or seeking repute in this Hajj. Begin Sa’ee at as-Safa. The Sa’ee Area is approximately 1/2 km (= 0.31 mile) Then loudly recite the Talbiyah - each round. The total 7 rounds is less than 3.5 km (= 2.17 miles).

َﻟ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﻟﱠﺒﻴْﻚ، ﻟَ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَ ﻚَ َﻟﱠﺒﻴْﻚ،

ِإ نﱠ ا ْﻟ ﺤَ ْﻤ َﺪ وَ ا ﻟ ﱢﻨ ْﻌ ﻤَ ﺔَ ﻟَ ﻚَ وَ ا ْﻟ ﻤُ ْﻠ ﻚُ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَﻚ “Labbayk Allahumma Labbayk, Labbayk la sharika laka Labbayk, Innal hamda wanni‘mata laka walmulk La sharika lak” Here I am O Allah, (in response to Your call), here I am. Here I am, You have no partner, here I am. Indeed all the Praise, Grace and Sovereignty belong to You. You have no partner. also from the Talbiyah, recite –

َﻟ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ إِ ﻟَ ﻪَ ا ْﻟ َﺤ ﻖّ Å Makkah (Ka’bah) (Distance 4-5 km = 2.48-3.10 miles) MinnaÆ Labbaika ilaahal haqq ponÅ Jamarat (Distance 6-7 km = 3.72- 4.34 miles) MuzdalifahÆ Here I am O Lord of Truth. Stay in Mina ÅMuzdalifah (Distance 8-9 km =4.97-5.59 miles) ‘ArafatÆ Calmly proceed to Mina - pray Zhuhr, ‘Asr, Maghrib and ‘Ishaa Å Minna (Distance 3 km = 1.8 miles) Muzdalifah Æ in shortened form but not combined 6. At foot of as-Safa recite – Å Makkah (Ka’bah) (Distance 22.4 km = 14 miles) ‘ArafatÆ 9th day of Dhul-Hijjah (Yawmu ‘Arafah)

Stay in ‘Arafah { ِإ نﱠ اﻟﺼﱠﻔَﺎ َو ا ْﻟ ﻤَ ْﺮ وَ َة ِﻣ ﻦْ َﺷ َﻌ ﺂ ﺋِ ﺮِ ا ﻟ ﱠﻠ ﻪِ ﻓَ ﻤَ ْﻦ (Umrah (Tawaaful-Qudoom Proceed to appropriate Meeqaat. On entering state of Ihram recite – .Pray Fajr, then, after sunrise, calmly proceed to ‘Arafah َﺣ ﺞﱠ ا ْﻟ ﺒَ ْﻴ ﺖَ أَ وِ ا ْﻋ ﺘَ ﻤَ ﺮَ َﻓ ﻼَ ُﺟ َﻨ ﺎ حَ ﻋَ ﻠَ ْﻴ ﻪِ َأ نْ َﻳ ﻄﱠ ﻮﱠ َف - It is permissible to continue to recite the Talbiyah ﺑِﻬِﻤَﺎ وَ ﻣَ ْﻦ ﺗَ ﻄَ ﱠﻮ عَ َﺧ ْﻴ ﺮ اً ﻓَ ﺈِ ﱠن ا ﻟ ﱠﻠ ﻪَ َﺷ ﺎ ِآ ﺮٌ َﻋﻠِﻴْﻢ} َﻟ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ ﺑِﻌُﻤْﺮَة َﻟ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﻟﱠﺒﻴْﻚ، ﻟَ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَ ﻚَ َﻟﱠﺒﻴْﻚ، LabbaikAllahumma bi-`umrah Innas-safaa wal marwata min sha'aa'irillaahi faman hajjal baita ِإ نﱠ ا ْﻟ ﺤَ ْﻤ َﺪ وَ ا ﻟ ﱢﻨ ْﻌ ﻤَ ﺔَ ﻟَ ﻚَ وَ ا ْﻟ ﻤُ ْﻠ ﻚُ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَﻚ Here I am O Allah, (in response to Your call) making ‘Umrah. 'awi`tamara falaa junaaha 'alaihi an yattawwafa bihimaa wa In fear of not completing the ‘Umrah, recite – man tatawwa'a khiran fa'innAllaha shaakirun 'aleemun “Labbayk Allahumma Labbayk, Labbayk la sharika laka Verily! As-Safa and al-Marwah are of the Symbols of Allah. So it is not a sin on him who performs Hajj or 'Umrah of the House to perform the Tawaf between Labbayk, Innal hamda wanni‘mata laka walmulk ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ ﻣَ ﺤِ ﱢﻠ ْﻲ َﺣ ْﻴ ﺚُ ﺣَﺒَﺴْﺘَﻨِﻲ them. And whoever does good voluntarily, then verily, Allah is All-Recognizer, La sharika lak” Allahumma mahillee haithu habastanee All-Knower. Here I am O Allah, (in response to Your call), here I am. Here I am, You have no O Allah, [If I am prevented by an obstacle then indeed] Each time upon as-Safa and al-Marwah facing Ka’bah, recite – partner, here I am. Indeed all the Praise, Grace and Sovereignty belong to You. my place is where You prevent me. You have no partner. Standing, face the Qiblah and recite – - and also proclaim the Greatness of Allah by reciting اَ ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ َأ ْآ ﺒَ ﺮ ، َا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ أَ ْآ َﺒ ﺮ ، َا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ُﻪ أَآْﺒَﺮ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ أَآْﺒَﺮ Allahu Akbar ﻻَ إِ ﻟَ ﻪَ ِإ ﻻﱠ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ُﻪ وَ ْﺣ ﺪَ ُﻩ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَﻪ، َﻟ ﻪُ ا ْﻟ ﻤُ ْﻠ ﻚُ وَ َﻟ ﻪُ ا ﻟْ َﺤ ﻤْ ُﺪ ﻳُﺤْﻴِﻲ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ هَ ﺬِ ِﻩ ُﻋ ْﻤ َﺮ ةٌ ﻻَ ِر َﻳ ﺎ ءَ ﻓِﻴْﻬَﺎ وَ ﻻَ ﺳُﻤْﻌَﺔ .Allah is the Greatest وَ ﻳُ ِﻤ ْﻴ ﺖُ وَ ُه ﻮَ ﻋَﻠَﻰ آُ ﻞﱢ ﺷَ ْﻲ ءٍ ﻗَ ﺪِ ْﻳ ﺮ ؛ Allahumma haadhihi umrah , laa riyaa'a feehaa wa laa sum'ah O Allah, there is neither showing off nor seeking repute in this ‘Umrah. Stopover at Namirah 7 and remain there until after Zawaal (sun at highest point - no shadow). Then calmly proceed to ‘Uranah 8 and listen to the Khutbah. At the time of ﻻَ إِ ﻟَ ﻪَ ِإ ﻻﱠ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ وَ ْﺣ ﺪَ ُﻩ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَﻪ، أَ ْﻧ ﺠَ ﺰَ وَ ْﻋ ﺪَ ُﻩ – Then loudly recite the talbiyah Zhuhr, pray Zhuhr and ‘Asr (in shortened form and combined), after one Adhaan وَ َﻧ ﺼَ ﺮَ ﻋَ ْﺒ ﺪَ ُﻩ وَ هَ ﺰَ َم ا َﻷ ْﺣ َﺰ ا بَ وَ ﺣْﺪَﻩ and two Iqaamah’s. Do not pray anything between these two prayers, nor pray .Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar - laa illaaha illallahu anything after ‘Asr. Then calmly proceed to ‘Arafah, remaining there until sunset َﻟ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﻟﱠﺒﻴْﻚ، ﻟَ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَ ﻚَ َﻟﱠﺒﻴْﻚ، ,wahdau laa shareekalah - lahul mulku wa lahul hamdu - Stand upon the rocks at the bottom of the Mount of Mercy (Jabalur-Rahmah); if not ِإ نﱠ ا ْﻟ ﺤَ ْﻤ ﺪَ وَ ا ﻟ ﱢﻨ ْﻌ ﻤَ َﺔ ﻟَ ﻚَ وَ ا ْﻟ ﻤُ ْﻠ ﻚُ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَﻚ yuhyee wa yumeetu wa huwa 'alaa kulli shai'in qadeer - laa then all of ‘Arafah is a standing place. Facing the Qiblah, with raised hands, “Labbayk Allahumma Labbayk, Labbayk la sharika laka supplicate and also recite the Talbiyah – ilaaha illallahu wahdahu laa shareekalah - anjaza wa'dahu wa Labbayk, Innal hamda wanni‘mata laka walmulk َﻟ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﻟﱠﺒﻴْﻚ، ﻟَ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَ ﻚَ َﻟﱠﺒﻴْﻚ، nasara ' abdahu wa hazamal ahzaaba wahdahu La sharika lak” Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. There is none ِإ نﱠ ا ْﻟ ﺤَ ْﻤ َﺪ وَ ا ﻟ ﱢﻨ ْﻌ ﻤَ ﺔَ ﻟَ ﻚَ وَ ا ْﻟ ﻤُ ْﻠ ﻚُ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَﻚ .Here I am O Allah, (in response to Your call), here I am. Here I am, You have no truly worthy of worship except Allah alone, without partner partner, here I am. Indeed all the Praise, Grace and Sovereignty belong to You. To Him belongs all Sovereignty and all Praise. He alone gives life and causes You have no partner. death, He is Omnipotent over all things. There is none truly worthy of worship “Labbayk Allahumma Labbayk, also from the talbiyah, recite - except Allah alone, without partner. He has fulfilled His promise, and helped Labbayk la sharika laka Labbayk, ”His slave, and He alone has defeated the confederates. Innal hamda wanni‘mata laka walmulk La sharika lak َﻟ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ إِ ﻟَ ﻪَ ا ْﻟ َﺤ ﻖّ - three times, making du’aa after first and second recitation only. .after each throw ﱠاﻟﻠ ُﻪ أَآْﺒَﺮ Here I am O Allah, (in response to Your call), here I am. Here I am, You have no partner, here I am. Indeed all the Praise, Grace and Sovereignty belong to You. - After stoning first Jamarahn, face Qiblah (with first Jamarah to your right), raise You have no partner. Allahu Akbar hands and supplicate as you wish. Then, calmly proceed to second Jamaraho It is encouraged to frequently recite the following – Allah is the Greatest. Facing second Jamarah, al-Wustaa 14, with Makkah to your left and Mina to your Walking at normal pace, make seven circuits of Ka’bah 3. right, throw each of the seven stones at Jamarah reciting – During each circuit, whilst between Yemeni Corner 4 (ar-Ruknul-Yamaanee) 4 ﻻَ إِ ﻟَ ﻪَ ِإ ﻻﱠ ﱠاﻟﻠ ُﻪ وَ ْﺣ ﺪَ ُﻩ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَﻪ، َﻟ ُﻪ ا ﻟْ ُﻤ ﻠْ ﻚ ، ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ أَآْﺒَﺮ – and the Black Stone (al-Hajarul-Aswad), recite Allahu Akbar وَ َﻟ ﻪُ ا ﻟْ َﺤ ﻤْ ﺪ ، وَ ُه ﻮَ ﻋَﻠَﻰ آُ ﻞﱢ ﺷَ ْﻲ ءٍ ﻗَﺪِﻳْﺮ .Allah is the Greatest {رَﺑﱠﻨَﺎ ﺁﺗِﻨَﺎ ﻓِﻲ اﻟﺪﱡﻧْﻴَﺎ ﺣَ ﺴَ ﻨَ ﺔً وَ ﻓِﻲ ا ﻵ ﺧِ ﺮَ ةِ Laa ilaha illAllahu wahdahu laa shareeka lahu lahul mulk wa .after each throw - ﺣَ ﺴَ ﻨَ ﺔً وَ ﻗِﻨَﺎ َﻋ َﺬ ا بَ اﻟﻨﱠﺎر} lahul hamdu wa huwa 'alaa kulli shay'in qadeer There is none truly worthy of worship except Allah alone, without partner. After stoning second Jamarah, face Qiblah (with second Jamarah to your right), To Him belongs all Sovereignty and all Praise, Rabbanaa aatinaa fid-dunyaa hasanatan wa feel aakhirati raise hands and supplicate as you wish. Then, calmly proceed to third Jamarahp. and He is Omnipotent over all things. hasanatan wa qinaa 'adhaaban naar Facing third Jamarah, al-’Aqabah al-Kubraa 15, with Makkah to your left and Mina to - this is the best supplication to recite on this great day. Our Lord! Give us in this world that which is good and in the Hereafter that your right, throw each of the seven stones at Jamarah reciting – After sunset, calmly proceed to Muzdalifah. which is good, and save us from the torment of the Fire! ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ أَآْﺒَﺮ – Then go behind Station of Ibrahim and recite Allahu Akbar Stay in Muzdalifah Allah is the Greatest. 6 .after each throw - {و ﱠَاﺗﺨِﺬُوْا ِﻣ ﻦْ ﱠﻣ َﻘ ﺎ ِم ِإ ْﺑ َﺮ ا هِ ْﻴ ﻢَ ﻣُﺼَﻠﻰ} Pray Maghrib and combine it with ‘Ishaa in shortened form , after one Adhaan and two Iqaamah’s. Do not pray anything between these two prayers, nor pray anything Wattakhidhoo min-maqaami ibraaheema musalla After stoning third and final Jamarah, move onwards without supplicating. After final after the Witr. Go to sleep until Fajr. And take the station of Ibrahim as a place of prayer. stoning on 13th day of Dhul-Hijjah 16, calmly exit Mina and proceed to Makkah. 10th day of Dhul-Hijjah (Yawmun-Nahr) Behind Station of Ibrahim - if possible, otherwise anywhere within al-Masjidul- Before final departure from Makkah, perform Tawaaful-Wadaa’ (Farewell Tawaf) as Haraam: Pray two rakaah naafilah; In first rakaah recite Soorah al-Kaafiroon your last act. Pray Fajr at its earliest time. Calmly proceed to al-Mash’arul-Haraam 9, ascend upon and in second rakaah, Soorah al-Ikhlaas.Then go to Zam-Zam well and drink from it, it. If not possible, then all of Muzdalifah is a standing place. then pour some water over head. Return to al-Hajarul-Aswad (The Black Stone) and Tawaaful-Wadaa (Farewell) Facing Qiblah, praise Allah by reciting – make a sign with your right hand towards it for the last time 2, and recite – Upon entering al-Masjidul-Haraam with the right foot, recite –

ﱠاﻟﻠ ُﻪ أَآْﺒَﺮ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﺻ ﻞﱢ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ُﻣ ﺤَ ﱠﻤ ٍﺪ وَ َﺳﻠﱢﻢ، ا ﻟْ َﺤ ﻤْ ُﺪ ﻟِﻠﱠﻪ Alhamdu lillahi Allahu Akbar Allah is the Greatest. ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ ا ﻓْ َﺘ ﺢْ ﻟِﻲ َأ ْﺑ َﻮ ا بَ رَﺣْﻤَﺘِﻚ .All Praise is for Allah Begin Sa’ee at as-Safa. At foot of as-Safa recite – and proclaim the Greatness of Allah by reciting – Allahumma salli `ala muhammadin wa sallim –

Allahumma aftah lee abwaaba rahmatika { ِإ نﱠ اﻟﺼﱠﻔَﺎ َو ا ْﻟ ﻤَ ْﺮ وَ َة ِﻣ ﻦْ َﺷ َﻌ ﺂ ﺋِ ﺮِ ا ﻟ ﱠﻠ ﻪِ ﻓَ ﻤَ ْﻦ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ُﻪ أَآْﺒَﺮ Allahu Akbar O Allah, send prayers and peace upon Muhammad, .O Allah, open the doors of Your Mercy for me َﺣ ﺞﱠ ا ْﻟ ﺒَ ْﻴ ﺖَ أَ وِ ا ْﻋ ﺘَ ﻤَ ﺮَ َﻓ ﻼَ ُﺟ َﻨ ﺎ حَ ﻋَ ﻠَ ْﻴ ِﻪ َأ نْ َﻳ ﻄﱠ ﻮﱠ َف Allah is the Greatest. No Ihram required. Start at al-Hajarul-Aswad (The Black Stone)1. When beginning each circuit, make a sign with your right hand ﺑِﻬِﻤَﺎ وَ ﻣَ ْﻦ ﺗَ ﻄَ ﱠﻮ عَ َﺧ ْﻴ ﺮ اً ﻓَ ﺈِ ﱠن ا ﻟ ﱠﻠ ﻪَ َﺷ ﺎ ِآ ﺮٌ َﻋﻠِﻴْﻢ} – then proclaim the Oneness of Allah by reciting

Innas-safaa wal marwata min sha'aa'irillaahi faman hajjal baita towards al-Hajarul-Aswad (The Black Stone)2, and recite – ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ أَآْﺒَﺮ awi`tamara falaa junaaha 'alaihi an yattawwafa bihimaa wa' ﻻَ إِ ﻟَ ﻪَ ِإ ﻻﱠ اﻟﻠﱠﻪ Laa ilaha illAllahu man tatawwa'a khiran fa'innAllaha shaakirun 'aleemun Allahu Akbar There is none truly worthy of worship except Allah. Verily! As-Safa and al-Marwah are of the Symbols of Allah. So it is not a sin on Allah is the Greatest. - and finally, supplicate until the visibility of the yellow glow of the sun - before him who performs Hajj or 'Umrah of the House to perform the Tawaf between Walking at normal pace, make seven circuits of Ka’bah 3. During each circuit, whilst 10 sunrise. Before sunrise, calmly proceed to Mina , reciting the talbiyah – them. And whoever does good voluntarily, then verily, between ar-Ruknul-Yamaanee 4and al-Hajarul-Aswad, recite – Allah is All-Recognizer, All-Knower. – Each time upon as-Safa and al-Marwah facing Ka’bah, recite َﻟ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﻟﱠﺒﻴْﻚ، ﻟَ ﱠﺒ ْﻴ ﻚَ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَ ﻚَ َﻟﱠﺒﻴْﻚ، {رَﺑﱠﻨَﺎ ﺁﺗِﻨَﺎ ﻓِﻲ اﻟﺪﱡﻧْﻴَﺎ ﺣَ ﺴَ ﻨَ ًﺔ وَ ﻓِﻲ ا ﻵ ﺧِ ﺮَ ِة ﺣَ ﺴَ ﻨَ ﺔً وَ ﻗِﻨَﺎ َﻋ َﺬ ا بَ اﻟﻨﱠﺎر} َا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ أَ ْآ َﺒ ﺮ ، ا ﱠَﻟﻠ ُﻪ أَ ْآ ﺒَ ﺮ ، َا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ُﻪ أَآْﺒَﺮ ِإ نﱠ ا ْﻟ ﺤَ ْﻤ ﺪَ وَ ا ﻟ ﱢﻨ ْﻌ ﻤَ َﺔ ﻟَ ﻚَ وَ ا ْﻟ ﻤُ ْﻠ ﻚُ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَﻚ “Labbayk Allahumma Labbayk, Labbayk la sharika laka Rabbanaa aatinaa fid-dunyaa hasanatan wa feel aakhirati hasanatan wa qinaa 'adhaaban naar ﻻَ إِ ﻟَ ﻪَ ِإ ﻻﱠ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ُﻪ وَ ْﺣ ﺪَ ُﻩ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَﻪ، َﻟ ﻪُ ا ْﻟ ﻤُ ْﻠ ﻚُ وَ َﻟ ﻪُ ا ﻟْ َﺤ ﻤْ ُﺪ ﻳُﺤْﻴِﻲ Labbayk, Innal hamda wanni‘mata laka walmulk Our Lord! Give us in this world that which is good and in the Hereafter that وَ ﻳُ ِﻤ ْﻴ ﺖُ وَ ُه ﻮَ ﻋَﻠَﻰ آُ ﻞﱢ ﺷَ ْﻲ ءٍ ﻗَ ﺪِﻳْﺮ؛ ”La sharika lak Here I am O Allah, (in response to Your call), here I am. Here I am, You have no which is good, and save us from the torment of the Fire! .Upon completion of Tawaaful-Wadaa’, you are free to depart to your home ﻻَ إِ ﻟَ ﻪَ ِإ ﻻﱠ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ وَ ْﺣ ﺪَ ُﻩ ﻻَ ﺷَ ﺮِ ْﻳ ﻚَ ﻟَﻪ، أَ ْﻧ ﺠَ ﺰَ وَ ْﻋ ﺪَ ُﻩ .partner, here I am. Indeed all the Praise, Grace and Sovereignty belong to You .There is nothing further required of you from the rituals of Hajj وَ َﻧ ﺼَ ﺮَ ﻋَ ْﺒ ﺪَ ُﻩ وَ هَ ﺰَ َم ا َﻷ ْﺣ َﺰ ا بَ وَ ﺣْﺪَﻩ .You have no partner Upon leaving al-Masjidul-Haraam with the left foot, recite –

Stoning The Pillars ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﺻ ﻞﱢ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ُﻣ ﺤَ ﱠﻤ ٍﺪ وَ ﺳَﻠﱢﻢ، Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar - laa illaaha illallahu In Muzdalifa, pick up stones. 11 Between the times periods of after sunrise until the wahdahu laa shareekalah - lahul mulku wa lahul hamdu - ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ إِﻧﱢﻲ أَ ْﺳ ﺄَ ُﻟ ﻚَ ِﻣ ﻦْ ﻓَﻀْﻠِﻚ night, calmly proceed to Jamaratul-’Aqabah al-Kubraap 15 for stoning. Facing yuhyee wa yumeetu wa huwa 'alaa kulli shai'in qadeer - laa Jamarah, with Makkah to your left and Mina to your right, throw each of the seven Allahumma salli 'alla muhammadin wa sallim – stones at Jamarah reciting – ilaaha illallahu wahdahu laa shareekalah - anjaza wa'dahu wa nasara ' abdahu wa hazamal ahzaaba wahdahu Allahumma innee 'as'aluka min fadhlika Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest. There is none O Allah, send prayers and peace upon Muhammad, .truly worthy of worship except Allah alone, without partner. To Him belongs all O Allah, verily I ask You from Your Favour ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ُﻪ أَآْﺒَﺮ Allahu Akbar Sovereignty and all Praise. He alone gives life and causes death, Footnotes Allah is the Greatest. He is Omnipotent over all things. There is none truly worthy of worship except 1 If possible, cling to area between the corner of al-Hajarul-Aswad (The Black - after each throw. Allah alone, without partner. He has fulfilled His promise, and helped His Stone) and the door, placing the chest, face and forearms upon this area. slave, and He alone has defeated the confederates. 2 If possible, touch al-Hajarul-Aswad (Black Stone) with the right hand and Performing The Sacrifice - Three times, making du’aa after first and second recitation only. also kiss al-Hajarul-Aswad (Black Stone), then prostrate on it - this is best; Between the walk from as-Safa to al-Marwah and al-Marwah to as-Safa, it is if not, then touch it with the right hand then kiss the right hand; if not, simply If al-Hadee sacrificial ticket has been purchased, this is a permissible alternative, permissible to recite – make a sign towards it with the right hand. otherwise, calmly proceed to slaughter house in Mina for sacrifice 12. 3 There is no specific du’aa during the walk around the Ka’bah, apart from what has been mentioned for between ar-Ruknul-Yamaanee (Yemeni َر بﱢ ا ﻏْ ِﻔ ﺮْ وَا ْرﺣَﻢ، إِ ﱠﻧ ﻚَ أَ ْﻧ ﺖَ ا ﻷَ ﻋَ ﱡﺰ اﻷَآْﺮَم – Upon slaughtering, recite Corner to al-Hajarul-Aswad (Black Stone). You can therefore recite the Rabbighfir warham innaka antal a'azzul akram Quran or any du’aa as you please. O Lord forgive me and have mercy, verily You are the Mightiest and Noblest. 4 If possible, touch Ar-Ruknul-Yamaanee (Yemeni Corner) each time (but do ِﺑ ْﺴ ﻢِ ا ﻟ ﱠﻠ ِﻪ وَ ﱠاﻟﻠ ُﻪ أَآْﺒَﺮ .Complete walk from as-Safa to al-Marwah (one circuit), then al-Marwah to as-Safa not kiss it) - this is best; if not, then do not make any sign towards it ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ ِإ نﱠ هَﺬَا ﻣِ ْﻨ ﻚَ وَ ﻟَ ﻚَ ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ ﺗَ ﻘَ ﱠﺒ ْﻞ ﻣِﻨﱢﻲ (second circuit) and continue for seven circuits, finishing at al-Marwah. Upon 5 From wherever you are residing - hotel, house, etc. Bismillaahi WAllahu Akbar Al-Laahumma Inna Hadha Minka encountering green lights, men only - run from one light to other light. Upon the 6 Pray two Fard each for Zhuhr, ‘Asr and ‘Ishaa. Maghrib is not shortened, Wa Laka Al Lahumma Taqabbal Minnee completion of the Sa’ee, all restrictions are now lifted including marital relations. and remains three Fard. ‘Ishaa to be followed by Witr. In the name of Allah, and Allah is the Greatest. O Allah, it is from You and Upon leaving al-Masjidul-Haraam with the left foot, recite – 7 A place close to ‘Arafah - there is now a Masjid there. If this is not possible, belongs to You. O Allah, accept this from me. it is permissible to proceed to ‘Arafah. 8 A place closer to ‘Arafah than Namirah. If this is not possible, it is .permissible to proceed to ‘Arafah ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﺻ ﻞﱢ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ُﻣ ﺤَ ﱠﻤ ٍﺪ وَ َﺳﻠﱢﻢ، Shave Head  9 .A mountain in Muzdalifah ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ إِﻧﱢﻲ َأ ْﺳ ﺄَ ُﻟ ﻚَ ِﻣ ﻦْ ﻓَﻀْﻠِﻚ After the sacrifice, 10 Should you pass through valley of Muhassar, then hurry through it. Men: shaving head is preferable, or cut hair equally from all over head; Allahumma salli 'ala muhammadin wa sallim – 11 You will need only 7 pebbles on the 10th, and 63 afterwards. They must not Women: cut one-third finger length of hair. Allahumma innee 'as'aluka min fadhlika be bigger than a chick-pea (approximately 1 cm across = 0.39 inches). Remove Ihram, as all restrictions are now lifted except marital relations. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon Muhammad, 12 Or any other appropriate place. Calmly proceed to Makkah to perform Tawaaful-Ifaadhah. O Allah, verily I ask You from Your Favour. 13 The one closest to Masjidul-Khayf. 14 The middle one of the three. Tawaaful-Ifaadhah 15 11th and 12th days of Dhul-Hijjah The one nearest to Makkah. Upon entering al-Masjidul-Haraam with the right foot, recite – 16 It is permissible to perform Tawaaful-Wadaa’ on 12th day of Dhul-Hijjah (as (Ayyaamut-Tashreeq) long as you leave Mina before sunset), thus missing the recommended (but .not compulsory) third day of stoning ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ َﺻ ﻞﱢ ﻋَﻠَﻰ ُﻣ ﺤَ ﱠﻤ ٍﺪ وَ َﺳﻠﱢﻢ، Stay in Mina For Stoning Don’t forget to: Pay all debts. Redress all wrongs. Write your will. From the time period between after Zawaal (sun at highest point - no shadow) until For more copies: IB, PO Box 410186, SF, CA 94141-0186 USA ا ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬُ ﻢﱠ ا ْﻓ َﺘ ﺢْ ﻟِﻲ َأ ْﺑ َﻮ ا بَ رَﺣْﻤَﺘِﻚ Allahumma salli `alaa muhammadin wa sallim – the night, stone all three Jamarahs, 21 required per day (63 in total) nop Web: www.islamicbulletin.org E-Mail: [email protected] 13 Allahumma aftah lee abwaaba rahmatika Facing first Jamarah, as-Sughraa , with Makkah to your left and Mina to your right,  Enter here Hajj choose language & size (it fits 1 double sided page). throw each of the seven stones at Jamarah reciting – You can also download your Islamic Last Will, under  Last Islamic Will O Allah, send prayers and peace upon Muhammad, O Allah, open the doors of Your Mercy for me. ﱠاﻟﻠ ُﻪ أَآْﺒَﺮ No Ihram required. Start at al-Hajarul-Aswad (The Black Stone)1. When beginning each circuit, make a sign with your right hand towards al-Hajarul-Aswad 2, and recite Allahu Akbar Allah is the Greatest. We should get in the habit of remembering Allah in the name of Allah, when Whose name is mentioned nothing on Earth or in Heaven can cause harm, and everything we do. In the following pages, readers will َ ﺍ ﷲُ ﺃﹶﻛﹾﺒَﺮ He is the Hearer, the Knower) three times nothing will find the supplications (duas) for many different things. harm him. In a narration by Abu Dawood he will not ‘La ilaha illallah’ And who better to follow and learn from than our suffer sudden affliction. (AD&T). (There is no god but Allah), and Holy Prophet (SAW). He (SAW) was the perfect role ﱠ ,Whoever says“ َال إِلَهَ إِال ﷲ model because his actions and behavior were .(AllahuAkbar’ (God is the Greatest‘ َال إلَه إ ﱠال ﷲ وح ْده َال َشريك exemplary. Prophet Muhammad (SAW) always had the remembrance of Allah in thoughts, actions, and َ ِ ُ َ َ ُ ِ َ ِ There is no harm for you in which order you begin (them while remembering Allah).” (M) لَهُ، لَهُ ْالم ْل ُك ولَهُ ْالحم ُد يُ ْحيي sayings. We, too, should ُ َ َ ْ ِ (try and emulate his (SAW Enjoining Dhikr After Prayers َويُ ِم ُيت، َوھُ َو َعلَى ُك ﱢل َش ْي ٍء behavior by learning how to keep the remembrance When the Prophet (S) finished his prayer, he begged ,forgiveness قَ ِد ٌير .of Allah in our daily lives Between the time we get ‘La illaha illallah, wah-dahu la sharika lah, Lahul- َ ﱠ َ ﱠ َ ﱠ up and the time we go to sleep, there is a du'a for mulku wa lahul hamd, wa huwa ‘ala Kul-li shayin أ ْستَ ْغفِ ُر ﷲَ ,أ ْستَ ْغفِ ُر ﷲَ ,أ ْستَ ْغفِ ُر ﷲَ ’almost every act of our lives. During the holy month of Qadeer Ramadan, let us spend time memorizing these (There is no god but Allah, alone, without any partner. The Kingdom and praise belong to Him and He has supplications to ensure that we are constantly 'Asthegh-frrlah', Asthegh-frrlah, Asthegh-frrlah' power over everything). One hundred times a day, (I seek the forgiveness of Allah) 3 times thanking Allah for our multitude of blessings. will have a recompense equal to that of freeing ten You can find more duas onon our website with an slaves. Also, one hundred good actions are written for ﱠ َ ْ ْ ,him, one hundred wrong actions are erased from him اللھُ ﱠم أن َت ﱠالس َال ُم َو ِمن َك .audio feature to help you memorize them and it is a protection from Satan for ﱠالس َالم، تَبار ْك َت يا َذا ْالج َالل for that day until the night. No one does anything ُ َ َ َ َ ِ more excellent than someone who does more than Go to www.islamicbulletin.org, click on “Enter Here”, that." (B & M) ْ ْ ”.then click on prayers, and select, “ Everyday Duas َو ِاإلك َر ِام Upon Eating & Drinking 'Allahuma inta salam, wa minka asalam tebarekta “Mention the name of Allah yathel jelal wel ekram.' (O Allah! You are Peace, and peace comes from You. Blessed You are, O possessor of Glory and Honor). ب ْسم ﱠﷲ Click on the audio image next to each du'a to listen to ِ ِ .the correct pronunciation Bismillah, The best dhikr is eat with your right hand, and eat from what is near to Supplication said to one who does you a favour you.” And if you forget you should say, :If someone does you a favour and you say‘ َال إِلَهَ إِ ﱠال ﷲ ‘La ilaha illa Allah (there is no god but Allah). (T & IM) ﱠ ﺒﹺ ﺴْ ﻡﹺ ﺍﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪِ ﺃَﻭﱠﻟِﻪ ِِ ﻭَ ﺁ ﺨِ ﺭﹺ ﻩِ There are two expressions which are light on the“ َج َز ا َك ﷲُ َخ ْيرا tongue but heavy in scale and are dear to the Compassionate One (Allah). Bismillah awalu wa akhiru” Jazāka Allāhu Khayrāan These two phrases are: (In the name of Allah in the start and the end).

‘May Allah reward you with goodness.’ then you … have indeed excelled in praising him.’ When breaking the fast- Iftar ﺳُ ﺒْ ﺤَ ﺎ ﻥﹶ ﺍ ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪِ ﻭَﺑﹺﺤَﻤْﺪِﻩ ‘Subha-nal-lahi-wa-biham-dihi,’ When Someone Sneezes ﱠ َ َ (Glorified be Allah and His is the Praise) :If anyone of you sneezes, he/she should say" الل ُھ ﱠم اِنﱢى ل َك ُص ْم ُت َو َعلى ِر ْزقِ َك ْ ُس ْب َح َان ﱠﷲِ َالع ِظ ْي ِم اَف َط ْرت ’.Subha-nal-lahil Azeem‘ ( Glorified be Allah, the Most Exalted). Allahumma inni laka sumtu wa 'ala rizq-ika aftarthu َالح ْم ُد ِ Supplications for Day & Night O Allah! I fasted for You and I believe in You [and I put my trust in You] and I break my fast with Your 'Alhamdulillah' (Praise be to Allah.) sustenance ُس ْب َح َان ﷲ وب َح ْمده ِ َ ِ ِ ِ ‘Subhanalah wa beehamdi he.’ (Glory be Allah and all The dearest words to Allah are four: praise is due to Him”). Would not bring on the Day of And his/her companion should say to him/her Resurrection anything better than this except one who ﺳُ ﺒْ ﺤَ ﺎ ﻥﹶ ﺍ ﷲِ ”.utters these words more often ﱠ Any slave of Allah who says in the beginning of each“ يَ ْر َح ُم َك ﷲ ُ ’day and night: ‘SubhanAllah (Glory be to Allah), 'Yarhamukallah' (May Allah bestow his Mercy on you.) بِ ْس ِم ﷲِ الﱠ ِذي َال يَ ُض ﱡر َم َع ْاس ِم ِه When the latter says 'Yarhamukallah', the former َ ﺍ ﻟﹾ ﺤَ ﻤْ ﺪُ ﷲ َشي ٌء في ْاألَ ْرض و َال في ﱠالسماء ,should say ْ ِ ِ َ ِ َ ِ ’Alhamdulillah‘ ْ ,(Praise be to Allah) َوھُ َو ﱠالس ِم ُيع ال َعلِ ُيم “Bismillahl athee la yadhuru ma` ismuhu sha-e‘ feel يَ ْھ ِد ْي ُك ُم ﱠﷲُ َويُ ْصلِ ُح بَال َ ُك ْم ardh wa fees sama` wa who was samee’ul aleem.” (In 'Yahdikumullah wa yuslih balakum.' فِ ْي َم ْن تَ َولﱠ ْي َت، َوبَا ِر ْك لِي فِ ْي َم ا May Allah give you guidance and improve your) ﻭَ ﺇﹺﻧﱠﺎ ﺇﹺﻟﹶﻰ ﺭَﺑﱢﻨَﺎ ﻟﹶﻤُﻨْﻘﹶﻠِﺒُﻮْﻥﹶ، ﺍ ﳊﹶ ﻤْ ﺪُ ﷲِ، "(.condition أَ ْع َط ْي َت، َوقِنِي َش ﱠر َما قَ َض ْي َت، فَإ ِن ﱠ َك ت َ ْق ِضي َوال ي ُ ْق َضى َعلَ ْي َك، ﺍ ﳊﹶ ﻤْ ﺪُ ﷲِ، ﺍ ﳊﹶ ﻤْ ﺪُ ﷲِ، ﺍﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ ﺃﹶﻛﹾﺒَﺮُ، ﺍﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ Upon Going To Sleep إ ن ﱠه ال يذل م ْن وال َ ْي َت، [ وال يع ﱡز He (SAW) said to Ali (R) and Fatimah (R): “When you ِ ُ َ ِ ﱡ َ َ َ َ ِ ﺃﹶﻛﹾﺒَﺮُ، ﺍﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ ﺃﹶﻛﹾﺒَﺮُ، ﺳُ ﺒْ ﺤَ ﺎ ﻧَ ﻚَ ﺍﻟﻠﱠﻬ ﻢﱠ ﺇﹺ ﻧﱢﻲ go to bed say َم ْن َع َاد ْي َت ]، تَبَ َار ْك َت َربﱠنَا ﻇﹶ ﻠﹶ ﻤْ ﺖُ ﻧَﻔﹾﺴِﻲ ﻓﹶ ﺎ ﻏﹾ ﻔِ ﺮْ ﻟِﻲ، ﻓﹶ ﺈﹺ ﻧﱠ ﻪُ ﻻ ﻳَ ﻐْ ﻔِ ﺮُ َ ﺳُ ﺒْ ﺤَ ﺎ ﻥﹶ ﺍﷲ َوتَ َعال ْي َت . ,SubhanAllah’ (Glory be Allah) thirty-three times‘ .ﺍﻟ ﺬﱡ ﻧُ ﻮْ ﺏَ ﺇﹺ ﻻﱠ ﺃﹶ ﻧْ ﺖَ Al-Lahumma Ahdinī Fīman Hadayta Wa `Āfinī Fīman Āfayta Wa Tawallanī Fīman Tawallayta Wa Bārik Lī` ﺍ ﻟﹾ ﺤَ ﻤْ ﺪُ ﷲ ‘Alhamdulillah’ (praise is to Allah) thirty-three times, Bismi Allāhi, Wa Al-Ĥamdu Lillāh, Subĥāna Al-Ladhī Fīmā 'A`ţayta Wa Qinī Sharra Mā Qađayta Fa'innaka and Sakhkhara Lanā Hādhā Wa Mā Kunnā Lahu Taqđī Wa Lā Yuqđá `Alayka 'Innahu Lā Yadhillu Man Muqrinīna, Wa 'Innā 'Ilá Rabbinā Lamunqalibūna, Wa A-Yta Wa Lā Ya`izzu Man `Ādayta Tabārakta Al-Ĥamdu Lillāhi, Al-Ĥamdu Lillāhi, Al-Ĥamdu Rabbanā Wa Ta`ālayta. Lillāhi, Allāhu 'Akbaru, Allāhu 'Akbaru, Allāhu Akbaru, Subĥānaka Al-Lahumma 'Innī Žalamtu' َ ﺍ ﷲُ ﺃﹶﻛﹾﺒَﺮ Nafsī Fāghfir Lī, Fa'innahu Lā Yaghfiru Adh- O Allah, guide me along with those whom You have ‘AllahuAkbar’ (Allah is Great) thirty four times.” Ali Dhunūba 'Illā 'Anta. guided, pardon me along with those whom You have said, “I never stopped doing that since I heard it.” pardoned, be an ally to me along with those whom You Upon Getting Angry are an ally to and bless for me that which You have ‘In the name of Allah and all praise is for Allah. How bestowed. Protect me from the evil You have decreed for Once two persons abused each other in the presence of perfect He is, the One Who has placed this (transport) at verily You decree and none can decree over You.For the Prophet (S) and the eyes of one of them became red our service and we ourselves would not have been surety, he whom you show allegiance to is never abased and the veins in his neck were swollen. Thereupon the capable of that, and to our Lord is our final destiny. All and he whom You take as an enemy is never honoured Prophet (S) said: "I know of a wording that if he were praise is for Allah, All praise is for Allah, All praise is and mighty. O our Lord, Blessed and Exalted are You.’ to utter, his fit of rage would subside. If he says, for Allah, Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest. How perfect You are, O Allah, verily I have wronged my soul, so forgive me, for surely Supplication for the deceased at the funeral prayer ’.none can forgive sins except You أَ ُع ْو ُذ بِ ﱠاِ ِم َن ﱠالش ْي َط ِان ﺍ ﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻬ ﻢﱠ ﺍ ﻏﹾ ﻔِ ﺮْ ﻟﹶﻪ ُُ ﻭَﺍﺭْﺣَﻤْﻪُ، ﻭَ ﻋَ ﺎ ﻓِ ﻪ ِِ Before Entering The Restroom ﱠالر ِج ْي ِم 'Aootho bilahee mina shaytaan irajeem.' ﻭَ ﺍ ﻋْ ﻒُ ﻋَﻨْﻪُ، ﻭَ ﺃﹶ ﻛﹾ ﺮﹺ ﻡْ ﻧُﺰُﻟﹶﻪُ، ﻭَ ﻭَ ﺳﱢ ﻊْ I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the When Allah's Messenger (S) entered the restroom, he) accursed.)…his anger would subside.” used to say: "Anger comes from the devil, the devil was created of ﻣُ ﺪْﺧَﻠﹶﻪُ، ﻭَ ﺍ ﻏﹾ ﺴِ ﻠﹾ ﻪُ ﺑﹺﺎ ﳌﹶﺎ ﺀِ ﻭَﺍﻟ ﺜﱠ ﻠﹾ ﺞﹺ ﻭَﺍﻟﺒَﺮَﺩِ، َ ُ fire, and fire is extinguished only with water; so when بِ ْس ِم ﱠ ﷲِ الل ﱠھ ﱠم إ ِن ﱢي أ ُع ْوذ بِ َك ِم َن ".one of you becomes angry, he should perform ablution ﻭَﻧَﻘﱢﻪ ِِ ﻣِ ﻦَ ﺍ ﳋﹶ ﻄﹶ ﺎ ﻳَ ﺎ ﻛﹶﻤَﺎ ﻧَ ﻘﱠ ﻴْ ﺖَ ﺍﻟ ﺜﱠ ﻮْ ﺏَ .ا ْل ُخ ْب ِث َو ْال َخبَائِ ِث What To Say Before Marital Relations (Sexual Intimacy)

ﺍ ﻷَ ﺑْ ﻴَ ﺾَ ﻣِ ﻦَ ﺍﻟﺪﱠﻧَﺲﹺ، ﻭَ ﺃﹶ ﺑْ ﺪِ ﻟﹾ ﻪُ ﺩَ ﺍ ﺭ ﺍﹰ ﺧَﻴْﺮﺍً If any one of you, before having sexual intercourse [Bismillah] Allahuma innee a'oothu bika minal khubthi" with his wife, says: wal Khabaa'ith.' (O Allah, I seek refuge in You from unclean spirits, ﻣِ ﻦْ ﺩَﺍ ﺭﹺﻩِ، ﻭَ ﺃﹶ ﻫْ ﻼﹰ ﺧَﻴْﺮﺍً ﻣِ ﻦْ ﺃﹶﻫْﻠِﻪِ، (male and female devils). (B & M) ،بِ ْس ِم ﱠﷲِ اللﱠ ﱠھم َجنﱢ ْبنَا ﱠالش ْي َط َان ﻭَ ﺯَ ﻭْ ﺟَ ﺎﹰ ﺧَﻴْﺮﺍً ﻣِ ﻦْ ﺯَﻭْﺟﹺﻪِ، ﻭَ ﺃﹶ ﺩْ ﺧِ ﻠﹾ ﻪُ After Leaving The Restroom َو َجنﱢ ِب ﱠالش ْي َط َان َما َر َز ْقتَنَا 'Bismillah. Allahumma jannibnash shaitaana, wa When the Prophet (S) came out of the bathroom ﺍ ﳉﹶ ﻨﱠﺔﹶ، ﻭَ ﺃﹶ ﻋِ ﺬﹾ ﻩُ ﻣِ ﻦْ ﻋَ ﺬﹶﺍ ﺏﹺ ﺍ ﻟ ﻘﹶ ﺒْ ﺮﹺ ﻭَ ﻋَ ﺬﹶﺍ ﺏﹺ :jannibish shaitaana ma razaqtana.' (toilet), he used to say (In the Name of Allah. O Allah, protect me from Satan, and protect what you bestow on us [i.e. offspring] from ﺍﻟ ﻨﱠﺎﺭ (.Satan And if it is destined that they should have a child, then Al-Lahumma Aghfir Lahu Wa Arĥamhu, Wa `Āfihi ﻏﹸ ﻔﹾ ﺮَ ﺍ ﻧَ ﻚَ (".Satan will never be able to harm that child "Ghufraanak." Wa A`fu `Anhu, Wa 'Akrim Nuzulahu, Wa Wassi` (Grant me forgiveness Mudkhalahu, Wa Aghsilhu Bil-Mā'i Wa Ath-Thalji Supplication for Riding (or Transportation) Wa Al-Baradi, Wa Naqqihi Mina Al-Khaţāyā Kamā Whenever the Prophet (S) mounted his camel he said, Naqqayta Ath-Thawba Al-'Abyađa Mina Ad-Danasi, Wa 'Abdilhu Dārāan Khayrāan Min Dārihi, Wa Qunoot Al-Witr 'Ahlāan Khayrāan Min 'Ahlihi, Wa Zawjāan Khayrāan Min Zawjihi, Wa 'Adkhilhu Al-Jannata, Wa .A`idh/hu Min `Adhābi Al-Qabri Wa `Adhābi An-Nāri' ﱠ ﺑﹺ ﺴْ ﻢﹺ ﺍﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪِ ﻭَ ﺍ ﳊﹶ ﻤْ ﺪُ ﷲ، ﺳُ ﺒْ ﺤَﺎ ﻥﹶ ﺍﻟﱠﺬِﻱ O Allah, forgive and have mercy upon him, excuse him‘ الل ُھ ﱠم ْاھ ِدنِي فِ ْي َم ْن َھ َد ْي َت، .and pardon him, and make honourable his reception َ Expand his entry, and cleanse him with water, snow, and َو َعافِنِي فِ ْي َم ْن َعاف ْي َت، َوتَ َولﱠنِي ﺳَ ﺨﱠ ﺮَ ﻟﹶﻨَﺎ ﻫَﺬﹶﺍ ﻭَﻣَﺎ ﻛﹸ ﻨﱠﺎ ﻟﹶﻪ ُُ ﻣُ ﻘﹾ ﺮﹺﻧﹺﻴْﻦَ، ice, and purify him of sin as a white robe is purified of filth. Exchange his home for a better home, and his family for a better family, and his spouse for a better Seeking forgiveness and repentance Bidding Farewell to Someone spouse. Admit him into the Garden, protect him from the punishment of the grave and the torment of the Fire.’ ‘Whoever says: When bidding someone farewell. the Prophet (S) would say, Visiting the graves أَستَ ْغف ر ﱠﷲ الﱠذي ال إلَه◌ إالﱠ ھو َ ﱠ َ ْ ِ ُ َ ِ ِ َ َ ِ ُ َ ال ﱠس ُالم َعلَ ْي ُك ْم أَ ْھ َل ال ﱢدي َا ِر ِم َن أ ْستَ ْو ِد ُع ﷲَ ِد ْينَ َك َوأ َمانَتَ َك، الحي القَيوم وأَتُوب إلَيه َ ﱡ ﱡ ُ ُ َ ْ ُ ِ ْ ِ ا ُلم ْؤ ِمنِ ْي َن َو ُالم ْسلِ ِم ْي َن، َوإ ِن ﱠا إ ِ ْن َو َخ َواتِ ْي َم َع َملِ َك َ Astaghfiru Allāha Al-Ladhī Lā 'Ilāha 'Illā Huwa Al- 'Astawdi' laha deenaka wa'amanataka wa khatima' َش ا َء ﱠﷲ ُ بِ ُك ْم ِالحقُ ْو َن، نَ ْسأ ُل ﱠﷲ َ Ĥayyu Al-Qayyuwumu Wa 'Atūbu 'Ilayhi. amaleek.' I seek Allah’s forgiveness, besides whom, none has the (I entrust to Allah your belief, what you are responsible‘ لَنَا ولَ ُكم ا َلعافيَة َ (right to be worshipped except He, The Ever Living, The for, and your final deeds.) (T َ ُ ِ Self-Subsisting and Supporter of all, and I turn to Him in As-Salāmu `Alaykum 'Ahla Ad-Diyāri Mina Al- repentance.’ …Allah would forgive him even if he was Mu'uminīna Wa Al-Muslimīna, Wa 'Innā 'In Shā'a one who fled during the advance of an army.’ Settling a debt Allāhu Bikum Lāĥiqūna, Nas'alu Allāha Lanā Wa Lakumu Al-`Āfiyata. ‘Peace Supplication for seeking guidance (Al-Istikharah) الل ﱠھم ْاكفني ب َحالل َك َع ْن َح َرام َك، be upon you all, O inhabitants of the graves, amongst the ﱠ ِ ِ ِ ِ ِ ,believers and the Muslims. Verily we will, Allah willing َوأَ ْغنِنِي بفَ ْضلِ َك َع م ْن ِس َو َاك be united with you, we ask Allah for well-being for us The Prophet (SAW) said ‘ If any of you intends to ِ ﱠ and you.’ undertake a matter then let him pray two supererogatory units (two rakhats nafilah) of prayer and after which he When visiting the sick should supplicate Al-Lahumma Akfinī Biĥalālika `An Ĥarāmika Wa 'Aghninī Bifađlika `Amman Siwāka When the Prophet (SAW) would enter upon a sick O Allah, make what is lawful enough for me, as‘ ﺍﻟﻠﱠﻬ ﻢﱠ ﺇﹺ ﻧﱢﻲ ﺃﹶ ﺳْ ﺘَ ﺨِ ﻴْ ﺮُ ﻙَ ﺑﹺ ﻌِ ﻠﹾْ ﻤِ ﻚَ ، ﻭَ ﺃﹶ ﺳْ ﺘَ ﻘﹾ ﺪِ ﺭُ ﻙَ :person, he would say opposed to what is unlawful, and spare me by Your ’.grace, of need of others ﺑﹺ ﻘﹸ ﺪْﺭَﺗِﻚَ، ﻭَ ﺃﹶ ﺳْ ﺄﹶ ﻟﹸ ﻚَ ﻣِ ﻦْ ﻓﹶ ﻀْ ﻠِ ﻚَ ﺍﻟﻌَﻈِﻴْﻢﹺ، ﻓﹶ ﺈﹺ ﻧﱠ ﻚَ

Instruction for the one nearing death ﺗَ ﻘﹾ ﺪِ ﺭُ ﻭَﻻ ﺃﹶ ﻗﹾﺪِﺭُ، ﻭَ ﺗَ ﻌْ ﻠﹶ ﻢُ ﻭَﻻ ﺃﹶﻋْﻠﹶﻢُ، ﻭَ ﺃﹶ ﻧْ ﺖَ ﻋَ ﻼﱠ ﻡُ ﻻ ﺑَ ﺄﹾ ﺱَ ﻃﹶﻬُﻮْﺭٌ ﺇﹺ ﻥﹾ ﺷَﺎ ﺀَ ﺍﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ

Lā Ba'sa Ţahūrun 'In Shā'a Al-Lhu :He whose last words are‘ -ﺍﻟﻐُﻴُﻮْﺏﹺ، ﺍﻟﻠﱠﻬ ﻢﱠ ﺇﹺ ﻥﹾ ﻛﹸ ﻨْ ﺖَ ﺗَ ﻌْ ﻠﹶ ﻢُ ﺃﹶ ﻥﱠ ﻫَﺬﹶﺍ ﺍ ﻷَ ﻣْ ﺮَ

ﻭَ ﻳُ ﺴَ ﻤﱢﻲ ﺣَ ﺎ ﺟَ ﺘَ ﻪُ - ﺧَﻴْﺮٌ ﻟِﻲ ﻓِﻲ ﺩِﻳْﻨﹺﻲ ﻭَﻣَﻌﺎﺷِﻲ (Upon Hearing The Adhan (Call to Prayer ﻭَ ﻋَ ﺎ ﻗِ ﺒَ ﺔِ ﺃﹶ ﻣْ ﺮﹺ ﻱ ، ﻓﹶ ﺎ ﻗﹾ ﺪِ ﺭْ ﻩُ ﻟِﻲ ﻭَ ﻳَ ﺴﱢ ﺮْ ﻩُ ﻟِﻲ ﺛﹸ ﻢﱠ ﺑَ ﺎ ﺭﹺ ﻙْ ﻟِﻲ "When you hear the Mu'adhdhin (the person who calls to ﻻ ﺇﹺ ﻟﹶ ﻪََ ﺇﹺ ﻻﱠ ﺍﻟ ﻠﱠ ﻪُ prayer), repeat what he says. Then invoke a blessing on ﻓِﻴْﻪِ، ﻭَ ﺇﹺ ﻥﹾ ﻛﹸ ﻨْ ﺖَ ﺗَ ﻌْ ﻠﹶ ﻢُ ﺃﹶ ﻥﱠ ﻫَﺬﹶﺍ ﺍ ﻷَ ﻣْ ﺮَ ﺷَﺮٌ ﻟِﻲ ﻓِﻲ me, for everyone who invokes a blessing on me will receive ten blessings from Allah. Then beg from Allah Lā 'Ilāha 'Illā Al-Lhu ﺩِﻳْﻨﹺﻲ ﻭَ ﻣَ ﻌَ ﺎ ﺷِ ﻲ ﻭَ ﻋَ ﺎ ﻗِ ﺒَ ﺔِ ﺃﹶ ﻣْ ﺮﹺ ﻱ ، ﻓﹶ ﺎ ﺻْ ﺮﹺ ﻓﹾ ﻪُ ﻋَﻨﱢﻲ al-Wasilah for me, which is a rank in Paradise fitting for only one of Allah's Servants, and I hope that I may be that one. If anyone asks that I be given the Wasilah, he ‘None has the right to be worshipped except Allah.’ ﻭَ ﺍ ﺻْ ﺮﹺﻓﹾﻨﹺﻲ ﻋَ ﻨْ ﻪُ ﻭَﺍ ﻗﹾ ﺪِ ﺭْ ﻟِﻲ ﺍ ﳋﹶ ﻴْ ﺮَ ﺣَ ﻴْ ﺚﹸ ﻛﹶﺎ ﻥﹶ ﺛﹸ ﻢﱠ ".will be assured of my intercession ’.will enter Paradise… ﺃﹶﺭْﺿِﻨﹺﻲ ﺑﹺ ﻪِ اللﱠھُ ﱠم َر ﱠب ھَ ِذ ِه ﱠالد ْعو ِة التﱠ ﱠام ِة، Al-Lahumma 'Innī 'Astakhīruka Bi`ilmika Wa Supplication for the expiation of sins said at the َ 'Astaqdiruka Biqudratika Wa 'As'aluka Min Fađlika Al- conclusion of a sitting or gathering…etc ْ Ažīmi Fa'innaka Taqdiru Wa Lā 'Aqdiru Wa Ta`lamu` ُم َح ﱠمداً َو ﱠالص َال ِة القَائِم ِة، ِآت -Wa Lā 'A`lamu Wa 'Anta `Allāmu Al-Ghuyūbi Al َ -Lahumma 'In Kunta Ta`lamu 'Anna Hādhā Al-'Amra ْ َ َ ْ َ َ َ ْ Wa Yusammī Ĥājatahu - Khayrun Lī Fī Dīnī Wa ال َو ِسيلة َوالف ِضيلة، َو ْاب َعثهُ ﺳُ ﺒْ ﺤَ ﺎ ﻧَ ﻚَ ﺍﻟﻠﱠﻬ ﻢﱠ ﻭَﺑﹺﺤَﻤْﺪِﻙَ، ﺃﹶ ﺷْ ﻬَ ﺪُ ﺃﹶ ﻥﹾ ﻻ Ma`āshī Wa `Āqibati 'Amrī Fāqdirhu Lī Wa Yassirhu Lī ﱠ Thumma Bārik Lī Fīhi Wa 'In Kunta Ta`lamu 'Anna .مقَاماً م ْح ُموداً ال ِذي َو َع ْدتَه ُ Hādhā Al-'Amra Sharun Lī Fī Dīnī Wa Ma`āshī Wa َ َ ﺇﹺ ﻟﹶ ﻪََ ﺇﹺ ﻻﱠ ﺃﹶ ﻧْ ﺖَ ﺃﹶ ﺳْ ﺘَ ﻐْ ﻔِ ﺮُ ﻙَ ﻭَ ﺃﹶ ﺗُ ﻮْ ﺏُ Āqibati 'Amrī Fāşrifhu `Annī Wa Aşrifnī `Anhu Wāqdir` تُ ْخل ُف الم ْيعاد ﱠ .Lī Al-Khayra Ĥaythu Kāna Thumma 'Arđinī Bihi ِ ِ َ ِ إِن َك ال

'Allahumma rabba hadihi-d-da wati-t-tammati was salati-l qa'imati, ati Muhammadani-l wasilata wa-l fadilata, wa-b-'athu maqamam mahmudani-l- ‘O Allah, I seek Your counsel by Your knowledge and ﺇﹺ ﻟﹶ ﻴْ ﻚَ ladi wa 'adtahu. 'Innaka La Tukhlifu Al-Mi'ad.' by Your power I seek strength and I ask You from Your (O Allah, Lord of this perfect call and established prayer. immense favour, for verily You are able while I am not Grant Muhammad the intercession and favor, and raise and verily You know while I do not and You are the him to the honored station You have promised him. You Knower of the unseen. O Allah, if You know this affair Subĥānaka Al-Lahumma Wa Biĥamdika 'Ash/hadu 'An never fail in Your promise.) -and here he mentions his need- to be good for me in Lā 'Ilāha 'Illā 'Anta 'Astaghfiruka Wa 'Atūbu 'Ilayka relation to my religion, my life, and end, then decree and facilitate it for me, and bless me with it, and if You ‘How perfect You are O Allah, and I praise You. I bear know this affair to be ill for me towards my religion, my witness that None has the right to be worshipped except life, and end, then remove it from me and remove me You. I seek Your forgiveness and turn to You in

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